Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A number of different issues have been mentioned and people have been good enough to acknowledge this. They are quite different. I have dealt with the issue of the burning of a tent which was somebody's home. This was an utterly vile and disgusting act that rightly appalled and sickened people in this country. There is an ongoing Garda investigation into this situation, as there rightly should be, and the full rigours of the law should apply.

With regard to the issue we saw in Santry let me be very clear that we saw people hijacking the Irish flag-----

See this speech in context