Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It was, but although I am repeating myself, let us just remember the state of fear and anxiety in the country at the time. Our doctors and the Army were setting up tents in car parks of public hospitals. That is where we were at.

I agree, I do not think it will be done like that in the future and it is certainly not how we are thinking about doing it if it is needed again, and please God it will not be needed. We cannot judge what happened through a normal, peacetime lens. It was not a normal time.