Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I said what I said and will not take it back. It is not a term that I would normally use. People know that. It is not language that I would normally use. I said before that I do not think this was a normal situation. It is not something that I have ever seen. I was not targeting a particular group, class, area, or age-group of people. I was referring to the behaviour. Most people looking at what happened saw the burning of buses, Garda cars, looting, rioting, attacking members of An Garda Síochána and attacking other people, which I was reflecting. It is not language I would normally use, but it was not an attack on any group of people. It was not in any way targeted at an area of our city, which has been suggested. It was not a reflection of the area where this happened. It was very much an expression of what happened and the type of behaviour that happened. I think many people would agree that what we saw was just that. I have said what I said.