This was an emergency motion called in response to a planned commemoration of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP), to be held in Dublin Castle on the January 17 2020. On 7 January 2020, the Irish Government announced that the event was to be "deferred" amid widespread backlash.

The motion read: "The RIC and the DMP had an intolerable record of barbarism in this country while carrying out British rule in Ireland.

This was the police force that brutalised and murdered workers in Dublin during the 1913 lockout. This was the force that identified those to be executed after the Easter Rising.

This was the force that supervised the eviction of thousands of impoverished people from their homes leaving them destitute on the roads or inside the workhouse. That this obscene event is taking place is not only an affront to generations of patriots who struggled to end centuries of imperial tyranny, but it seeks to question the very legitimacy of our battle for independence and sovereignty.

Only a subservient Government suffering from a post-colonial state of mind and ashamed of our revolutionary history would encourage this disgraceful event."