David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We do not need to go into much detail on it. We possibly need a Teams meeting some time this week to hear people's proposals. In terms of my key proposal, obviously, we need an updated work schedule because we have a number of items to book in, including the nursing homes issue. We have the sitting on Friday also in respect of sports, which I believe should go ahead.

Yesterday, we had the launch of the living with the virus plan. No time was made available in the Dáil to debate that plan. We have to wait another couple of weeks before the committees are set up. Whether it is the health committee or business committee that might want to examine different parts of that plan, there is a need for this committee to examine it. There is still much confusion about it, despite the fact that we were told it would bring clarity. Even this morning we had Ministers contradicting what other Ministers had said the day before so there is a need for us to discuss that plan. We need to have the Minister for Health with the officials from the HSE and, if possible, NPHET come before the committee.

We need to hear from all of the actors that fed into that plan over a number of sessions or two or three sessions on the same day. There needs to be some scrutiny of the Bill and if this is the only committee that is available to do so then we should do it very quickly.