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

I appreciate from where the Deputy is coming and understand his sentiments. What the Deputy will hear, and is hearing, from the Government is one message that we have agreed collectively. He will hear lots of different voices explaining that message and that is what has been seen over the past couple of days. On Tuesday, we agreed and published a Government plan to deal with Covid for the next six to nine months. The Deputy would have seen Ministers and Deputies from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael out there explaining and defending that plan. That is exactly what we have done.

The Opposition did something different. It decided to try to pick holes in and undermine the plan, thereby undermining the public health message more generally. The parties in government showed absolute unity, went out there and defended the plan. We said that the plan is ours and we did not disown it in any way. The Deputy will see more of that in the next couple of weeks.

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