Previously the taoiseach said it was "utterly, utterly unacceptable how an Irish citizen is being treated". Mr Harris also said he had spoken to Ms Towey and her mother, who is with her in the UAE. He went on to say Ms Towey had "been the victim of male violence". "What Tori has been through is, I think, unimaginable for so many people here in this country, that a woman who has been the victim of a brutal attack found herself waking up not in a hospital, but in a police station," he said.