Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Everybody in Ireland has made significant sacrifices to deal with Covid-19, but most of all the young. The young have made those sacrifices, primarily, not to protect themselves but to protect the elderly, because we all knew coming into this that the elderly were most vulnerable. In light of that, I ask the Minister whether that sacrifice was in any way undermined by the advice of the Chief Medical Officer on 10 March that existing restrictions in nursing homes were not necessary, whether it was undermined by the Minister for Health's delay of over two weeks in meeting representatives of Nursing Homes Ireland when it sought engagement on access to personal protective equipment and testing for nursing home staff, and what we can do now to make up for lost time.

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