Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are here to deal with the Revised Estimates for Votes 24, 41 and 46, which are justice-related Votes concerning the Department and the Policing Authority. I would have liked to raise numerous things with the Minister today. However, given what we saw unfold outside the gates of this building just yesterday, I want to raise that matter with him today. Most of us who work here will be well aware of Mothers Against Genocide who regularly maintain a vigil outside the gates of this house. They continue to raise the issue of the ongoing and genocide in Gaza. On Sunday night they began a peaceful protest to coincide with Mother's Day - the type of protest that was happening in cities across Ireland. In Galway, for example, many mothers, including my own mother, also marked Mother's Day by remembering mothers in Gaza who were brutally murdered or whose children were brutally murdered.

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