Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We are out of time. A question I still have is one to which I do not expect an answer today. It is about whether we can expect the public to lock down again in circumstances where it is a question of assessing our economic response - it is a horrible question - having regard to the fact that 99.5% of the people who died of Covid-19 had underlying conditions or were over 65. The question is to what extent we take out the entire economy for the benefit of that group of people or the extent to which we can afford to do so. However, that is a broader question to be answered by lots of people in this Chamber at a different time.

I thank the Deputies who asked questions and the witnesses who came in to answer our questions and stayed longer than anticipated in order to do so.