Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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Covid-19 was obviously the biggest health threat to the island of Ireland over the past two years. Again this may be outside CAWT's mandate, but there were two separate approaches to restrictions and two separate vaccination programmes. Everything was disjointed between North and South. There were times when illness raged in the North and was lower in the South, yet we saw when Derry was extremely affected by Covid-19, Donegal, especially Inishowen, was extremely affected too. When the North was at a high wave, Monaghan and Cavan were also showing very high figures.

Unfortunately, neither administration stepped up to the plate in a joint approach to Covid-19 in that regard. Is there anything that can be done by the likes of the group before us to foster a better island-wide approach to a pandemic such as this?