Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not disagree with Ms McGinley at all. Communities in my town of Drogheda - the migrant community, for instance - tend to be isolated and not to mix with other people. In trying to get people together across communities, we had a function in Drogheda where we had more than 30 people speaking different languages. It was a wonderful event. They showed off their culture, language, heritage and so on. There is a great deal of work to be done in embracing all the people from all of the different countries that come into our society. One of the criticisms made of the Covid response, at least initially, was that we did not provide adequate advertising and public information sessions in different languages. The core issue is that people who lived in isolated communities were not addressed by public information campaigns, particularly by health information campaigns. Is that a fair point? What do we need to do?