Mr. Mark Malone:

Healthcare staff and library workers. There is an issue, I think, for the Garda to be asked about to what extent does somebody recording intimidating someone breach a criminal Act? That is not for us to solve but I think it is a question. We have seen people doing this multiple times. There is a general background temperature. We have also seen an increase in the use of the term "grooming", this labelling and accusation of paedophilia, which is deliberately about dehumanising and setting somebody up for violence. That is what it is about. That is why it is used.

There is what we talked about earlier on, stochastic terrorism. What we are seeing is an increase in the probability of something violent happening, whether an act or a more generalised rise in temperature. Every single one of the advocacy groups we work with speaks about a rise in temperature for them and the people they work with. Similarly, they all talk about a falling faith in An Garda Síochána's ability to protect them, in terms of being able to respond. We do not think this is going to be solved through policing at all. It is not. The amplification is a really big thing. We will keep hammering the recommender system, which is really important. Speaking to the Deputy's point, yes, there is a rise in temperature. It has stopped being a surprise to any of us that there are arson attacks. That would have been a weird sentence five years ago.