Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I brought the attention of the Dáil to this matter and it still does not answer the question as to why the Minister for Health could not come in. The issue is not about the winter planning, which is a separate matter. There was no specific item about them coming in to deal with the winter plan. This plan has now become the excuse not to discuss the restrictions. The Minister disowns the restrictions. I would like to know, incidentally, who is responsible for these new regulations, if it is not the Minister for Health, and it is extraordinary when he then runs away from engagement with the Covid-19 committee in order that we cannot ask about these things. He is running away. The excuse we have been given is that the witnesses can come in the week after to discuss the winter plan. We want them to discuss the regulations.

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