Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

My first question can be for anyone on the panel. I am a Deputy representing the Cork North-Central constituency. There has been a lot of speculation in recent days that County Cork may be moved from level 2 to level 3. One of the ideas that has been raised is that the county might remain at level 2 and that Cork city be moved to Level 3. That would be a new approach, it was not the one that was taken with counties Kildare, Laois, Offaly, Dublin etc. I would like to hear from the panel, not so much about the thinking behind that but about how they think that might work out, what the pros and cons would be and any observations they would like to make.