Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 December 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour) | Oireachtas source
I am trying to and want to be as fair as I possibly can. There are youth workers who say their work trying to encourage young people not to fall into the trap of the far right, drug gangs and so on is being made more difficult.
There are people on the edges of all these actions, including bad actors and those who are led by bad actors. Does the Minister not accept that labelling the entirety of what happened and everybody involved, and using a phrase as classist as that, was a regrettable intervention on her part that she should reflect on and, I feel, apologise for?
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