Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not inviting the Tánaiste to interfere in any investigative process. I would not do so. I acknowledge the independence of the Garda and indeed the independence of the Judiciary, both of which are essential pillars of our functioning democratic system. That is why it is essential for the independence of those organisations and institutions to be reasserted in circumstances of public concern or public doubt. What has happened here in a drip-drip way is that people, including pensioners and children, as I have mentioned, have been arrested right across west Tallaght.

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