Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Drew Harris:
This is an element of our national security responsibility. In that line, I feel I cannot set out the resources that are engaged in that or when they are on duty. What I would say is that there is obviously a huge amount of material out there on the Internet. Even since Thursday, there has been a huge amount of misinformation about projected protests, etc., and efforts to gather up further protests and even threats of rioting, looting, etc. On all of those, we have made an assessment. Some of those we have policed very intensely and those things have not come to pass. However, there has also been a false trail of other misinformation that has gone up. The challenge is that so much of what is put up on social media is nonsense.
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