Minister for Justice Simon Harris twice avoids directly responding to Taoiseach’s claim there are too few gardaí to deal with anti-immigration violence
Garda sources said there was no shortage of personnel last Friday night, adding that if more gardaí had been available they would not have been used as the operation was fully staffed. They believed Mr Varadkar’s remarks demonstrated a lack of knowledge about how the Garda had run policing operations at anti-immigration protests in recent years.
Speaking in Limerick on Monday, Mr Varadkar condemned the aggressive protesting at Sandwith Street. The encampment site was damaged in a fire later that night and although the asylum seekers were not present, some of them lost their belongings. When asked if there were enough gardaí in Dublin to prevent incidents like that seen last week, Mr Varadkar said “no”, adding he was “really shocked and horrified to see what happened in Dublin [during] the last couple of days”. He was “worried” other incidents could happen, saying they had been witnessed “in other countries”.
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