Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

My thoughts, solidarity and support are with the families of the children who were terribly blighted and injured on Thursday. Those brave people who intervened, the ordinary decent Dubliners, whether from Dublin or from around the world, are the heroes, as are the emergency responders. There is an element who for a long time have been fomenting hatred and poison and who hijacked the events on Thursday. These fascist agitators have been doing this for a considerable time. Their vitriol and commentary are utterly poisonous. Some of the commentary calls for migrants to be killed on the streets, and because of that, and I am sure we have all felt it, people of colour and migrants who have been living in this country for a long time are now fearful for their well-being. That cannot be tolerated under any circumstances.

Social media has a lot to be challenged for in giving these people so much oxygen. It is incredible. They are calling for people to be killed and to be rounded up and so forth, and social media companies, which make vast profits and are not too far from this House, have a lot to answer for. These people feel emboldened because they can go from burning buses to burning people. I am sorry to say that because these people, and they are a small number of people, feel so emboldened as to use serious violence against other people. It is a warning not only from history but from last Thursday that these people have to be challenged.

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