James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Daly is going to the Chamber. He may not be able to rejoin the meeting. I will come back to Deputy Ó Ríordáin in the second round.

I have a couple of questions of my own next. I wish to raise a couple of different topics in no particular order. We are here today to deal primarily with the arson attacks. That is the focus of the session, but there are lots of other interesting topics that naturally spill out from that. We are going to hear from the assistant Garda commissioner and the deputy Garda commissioner later, but I think the phrase that was used previously is that there is no evidence to suggest that this is a conspiracy. I struggle with that a little bit because it strikes me that there are similarities and correlations and even online contacts between different groups. What does Ms McDonald say to that? It strikes me, without having expert knowledge that it is too co-ordinated and sophisticated to be the work of a couple of random people in a couple of random towns. Do the witnesses want to comment on that first?