Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

Two weeks ago, people gathered for the 29th anniversary of a gun attack on the Ormeau Road in 1992 in which people were murdered by loyalist paramilitaries. The PSNI descended on that gathering in an extremely heavy-handed manner. Its officers came down on the families affected by and survivors of that loyalist atrocity like a ton of bricks. One police officer has been suspended and another has been repositioned. The Chief Constable of the PSNI has apologised. It is just another example of heavy-handed and political policing by the PSNI. Many nationalist communities in the North of Ireland have experienced such policing in recent times. Sinn Féin and the SDLP have intermittently raised this issue but there has been no recent reform of the PSNI. Has the Taoiseach spoken to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland about this issue? Has he called for root-and-branch reform of the PSNI such that the police force is acceptable to both communities?

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