Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 March 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:30 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The algorithms on my Twitter account are all over the place because I have been keeping an eye on a few things. For example, there were two arson attacks on the same building in my area. There is the same profile. It may not be the same people who are burning buildings and they may not use the same means to set them on fire but there is a commonality in respect of the transfer of information across social media. It feels like a very softly, softly approach with regard to some of these people. Mr. Harris commented on that in the recent past, when he spoke about not making martyrs out of them. I am probably putting words in his mouth, but it was something of that nature. Has he changed his view on that since the Dublin riots and since the number of arson attacks has accelerated - pardon the pun - to approximately ten in the past three or four months?

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