Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald suggested Simon Harris and Fine Gael did not have 'a serious approach at all' to tackling crime. Photograph: Damien Storan/PA Wireon Wednesday devoted to discussing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Half the morning and then half the afternoon examining the issue.There is nothing new in saying there is nothing new. That novelty passed a long time again.We say never again. We voice outrage. We listen to the promises.
As he has largely given up on Mary Lou acknowledging the Coalition actions he outlines in the Dáil, the Taoiseach did what he always does and listed them “for the people watching at home”. Mary Lou McDonald didn’t think much of his party’s attitude to keeping the peace. “I don’t see a serious approach at all from you, from your Government – so-called champions of law and order. You’ve left people really vulnerable and feeling very, very unsafe.”
Harris wasn’t going to let this attack on his Minister, who is a TD for Meath East, go unchallenged. He called Toibin out in no uncertain terms for his “constant misrepresentation” of her position. It was also a surprise that it took so long for a Galway deputy to raise the small matter of an All-Ireland senior football match last weekend when