Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Did the landlady employ the private security firm in question to enact the court order? Was she not supposed to get an enforcement order? The Minister says this is solely a matter for An Garda Síochána. Why did the Garda believe it necessary to send out a Garda riot squad, a public order unit, a Garda Transit Connect van and masked gardaí without identification numbers? The masked men from the private security firm did not have identification numbers either and there was nothing to identify who they were working for or what they were doing there. This incident was very sinister. I stand with my colleagues in saying I do not condone violence. When I was arrested on Parnell Road, I was standing peacefully on a water meter and I did not in any way challenge the gardaí present. If gardaí think someone has done something wrong, they arrest that person, who may subsequently be convicted. Whatever the issue is, one does not go into an incident such as the one we are discussing with batons, dogs, pepper spray and so on. It was a peaceful protest. The people inside the premises left it peacefully, and there was no need for heavy-handed tactics and what looked like very sinister efforts on the part of the Garda and the private security firm.

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