Dáil debates

Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Ceisteanna – Questions

Programme for Government

4:50 pm

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will go and check the full list. The issue here is to try to get this matter resolved. As someone said, after the lockdown, we do not want them back picketing up until Christmas. We do not want people on the streets. Gardaí use their discretion all the time, and have done since the outset of this dispute when the first lockdown was in place. To be fair to the Garda, it will be equally discreet in the exercise of its duties on this occasion also, of this I have no doubt. The more pressing point is whether we can get the issue resolved once and for all within the legal frameworks and the law, conscious of any precedent that might be set but which we can deal with and accommodate. It is very difficult but I will come back to the Deputies on the matter.

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