Letters to the Editor: Legislation already exists to deal with protests

Anti-Abortion protesters holding signs as they stand across the road from Holles Street Hospital in Dublin in 2019.

When I read the article — ‘ Legislation to ban anti-abortion protests outside facilities to come into force’ (Irish Examiner, online, July 12) — my cynicism in relation to this current Government reached a level I hardly thought possible.

When the State’s highest ranking police officer, Commissioner Drew Harris, has categorically stated that there is no need for such legislation and the government ignores him, one needs no further evidence that this Government is one that responds to vested interests rather than the actual needs of its citizens.