Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is an important distinction between the actions of individual gardaí who showed incredible valour and courage and responded absolutely in the right way and the institutional response. It seems to me, and I believe to most Dubliners, that with gardaí being attacked and isolated, migrants and bystanders being attacked, open looting, and a Luas vehicle and a Garda car on fire, that that has to constitute loss of control. The scenes were, effectively, unprecedented in the past few decades.