Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The shambles that has been made of the Covid committee, about which we received a communication in the past two hours, means it is of extra importance that we look at our schedule for the week, particularly in relation to what has been said before. Dublin has gone through two separate levels of regulations over the last week. We have changes to the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP. There are issues in relation to the need for a ban on evictions and the moratorium on mortgage payments. All of these issues need to be discussed. We urge in the strongest terms that we find time this week to debate these issues as a matter of urgency. If we need to convene a meeting of the Business Committee to do so, we would like that to happen straightaway.

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