David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister said there was a pathway to opening up screening services and rather than setting out that pathway, he gave us a restatement of what has happened in recent times, rather than giving us real information on how those services will be opened in the time ahead. The Minister is also saying the Government will come forward with a plan on how to live with this virus but where is the discussion with other parties? Where is the debate on these issues leading into such decisions? If we are all in this together then we have ideas and views as well, as does everyone in this Chamber. The problem is that the Minister for Health and the Government have become part of the problem in respect of how he and other Ministers have badly communicated many of the measures the Government has put in place. The Minister, for example, proposed criminalising people for having friends over.

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