Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Does that mean the Taoiseach will set up a task force? Will he provide the data people want? It generates goodwill if people can see the situation for themselves. We are talking here about adults who have doubts but who are being told "It's grand; we have it; it'll work; we know best". That does not wash; people want to see the information. The information is there in the data hub and it was clear when it was published on 12 August that there were wide variations in the number of cases. I am not saying there were not cases but there were wide variations. I live a mile from the Dublin county boundary but 50 kilometres away from Kildare Chilling. It did not make sense to me that I could go to Kildare town, where there was a very large outbreak and circulate with no problem. I could then go to work in Dublin the following day. That is the kind of thing that led to people arguing the county lockdown did not make sense. People did not understand how that was a coherent piece of advice from a public health perspective. People need information so they can make up their minds themselves and I ask that it be provided.

I ask the Taoiseach to respond on the taskforce and the weekly updating of the data hub. Will he visit those areas? We have to learn from this. If this is part of the regime, the Taoiseach has to hear about it because the second lockdown was very different from the first time round.

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