Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Of course there will be lessons learned, and there should be, from a catastrophic event of this size, and the Garda and we as a country will be the better for it.

Regarding the school and those children, I have been in contact with the principal numerous times. I have been in contact with the Garda – not just the Commissioner, but local gardaí at Store Street. I assure colleagues that, above all, every resource that the parents and staff at that school require will be made available to them. Gardaí are there and will be stationed there. It is not for me, Deputy O’Reilly or anyone else in the House to decide how policing should operate, but gardaí are working with and engaging with the school to ensure that whatever need it had and support it requires is made available to it. No matter what we discuss in the Chamber, they are the most important people in all of this at the end of the day.

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