Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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On the Tánaiste's second point, and he is the doctor and I am not, but Covid does not come out of nowhere in a home. It is brought into a home and then infects everyone in that home. It is seeded somewhere, be it in a workplace, school, social activity, church or elsewhere, but it originates outside the home and someone brings it into the home where it spreads. Therefore, what may start as one transmission to one individual becomes a transmission to four people when that person brings it home and spreads it. It does not just arrive in the home from nowhere; it comes from somewhere. Is that not the case? If we all just stayed in our homes, which is the idea behind partial or full lockdown, we would not get Covid because it does not originate out of nowhere, people have to give it to each other.