Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The Government needs to get a grip. It is wider than the issues relating to migration and is about how this is being managed.

There is absolutely no justification for buildings being set on fire by anyone and I want to see people brought to justice for that. When she wraps up, will the Minister deal with the issue of the resources that are being made available? The fires have happened in dispersed locations. Are specialist resources available at all of those locations? We need those specialist resources, including for looking at social media accounts. These people are not putting advertisements in the Irish Independentor The Irish Timesor putting an ad on a local radio station. It is social media that is being used. I would expect there would be strong involvement of specialist units, not centrally, but locally when there is a need for that to happen. The Minister might deal with that when she wraps up because it is critical.

I echo the points she made regarding people who have knowledge of who started these fires or who have been involved in them. They should be providing that information so this issue can be stopped.

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