Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This does not add up to a confident scenario. Why is this Cabinet committee not meeting until March? Is there not an argument for more regular meetings? What is being done to add a new dynamic and urgency to dealing with this issue? The Taoiseach has said time out of number, both here and elsewhere, that this is one of the great crises facing our people.

If this is one of the great crises facing our people, we do not deduce it from the record of meetings and the actions of the Government.

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