Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I join with the Senator in expressing our sympathies to the families who have, over the last number of hours, gone through the most unimaginable horror to befall any parent, which is the loss of a child. As the Senator has pointed out, it is an unnecessary loss. This is a failure of politics at its worst. This is a world superpower. If it cannot protect its own children then the solution is not more police; it is more politics and people working together to make sure they protect their children.