Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Arson Attacks: Discussion
Mr. Mark Malone:
The short answer is that we are not sure. Is there a connection with people spending three or four years demonising migrants, whipping up fear about accommodation centres generally and certain places specifically? At the risk of repeating myself, we talked earlier about a handful of people turning up in an area and a place going up in flames. Where those people turn up, a place goes up in flames. There is a statistical correlation, which is different to a legal case.
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