Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I can accept some of the criticism the Deputy puts forward. If we had been in a position to plan for this, we would have planned for it and would have had all these things in place. However, the Minister for Health, the Government and all the people working around us had to respond to this very quickly and to put things together in a matter of days. In normal circumstances, we would have had time to prepare but we did not have it in this instance.

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