Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
2:00 am
Mr. Drew Harris:
Yes, I would absolutely say “Yes” because there have been many instances across the world. Only two weeks ago in Austria, 11 individuals were shot dead by a lone person. This is, sadly, a more frequent occurrence. There is very insidious material on the Internet which seeks to radicalise young people. We have to look at an individual and the threat they might create to the general public and deal with that appropriately. This was, in our view, a very successful operation in that we made sure that a threat to the public did not arise from the circumstances we were dealing with. Subsequent events, tragic as they are, on 1 June were obviously very tragic but they did not arise from our operation that we conducted.
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