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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is important that we are honest about what happened before we move forward. Does the Minister accept that control was lost on streets of Dublin for a period of time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is a very different question. Gardaí respond in the best possible way with the resources that they have at a moment in time. That is a different question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is an important distinction between the actions of individual gardaí who showed incredible valour and courage and responded absolutely in the right way and the institutional response. It seems to me, and I believe to most Dubliners, that with gardaí being attacked and isolated, migrants and bystanders being attacked, open looting, and a Luas vehicle and a Garda car on fire,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: What people on the ground have expressed is the fact that, yes, when it comes to 500 or 600 people, there is a problem but that it was becoming obvious before there were 500 or 600 people present, that there was a desire to create disorder and to exploit this appalling incident. Had more gardaí been on the ground and in a position to respond earlier on that evening when it was beginning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is a dispute between the Minister and X, formerly Twitter. There are two sides to every dispute but I understand from the Minister's statements, and she may clarify this as I may be wrong, that she was communicating what was told to her by a garda in Pearse Street station on the non-co-operation or inadequate co-operation of X. Was that ever communicated in writing and was it wise in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I know that the Minister was asked the question but the Minister also volunteered this information in the Dáil without a question. It might have been better if the statement had been based upon an official statement on the formal communications between An Garda and X.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We can bring the Deputy back in again later. I call Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Did Mr. Finnegan want to add to that? No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will also ask the ESB to respond to Senator Wall's question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Is the Senator satisfied with those answers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: These are all very small but interesting asks. I might put the points to Irish Water first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will come back to that after Mr. Nicholson's contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Más féidir liom teacht isteach ansin. Tá brú ama orainn mar tá cruinniú príobháideach againn freisin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Go raibh maith agat. I call Senator Burke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Just sit into the microphone a small bit, please, Mr. Joyce.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will ask one or two brief questions. As I do not represent a rural constituency, perhaps I do not have as much experience as some of the other Deputies in dealing with some of these issues. Is le hAodán Mac an Mhíle an chéad cheist atá agam. Táimid ag caint faoi chuid mhaith de na hábhair seo ó thaobh fuinnimh, uisce agus gach rud eile mar táimid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have a few questions for Mr Finnegan. I do not have questions for the other organisations. I had the benefit of a lengthy meeting with local Irish Water representatives recently so any questions I had were answered there. Given that I am critical of Irish Water, to be fair, I will acknowledge that the investment in the system in Cork has been substantial in the past four or five years...