Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The person who never made a mistake never made anything. I am grateful to the Government for looking back and saying it was a mistake to restrict funerals to ten people and that the limit should have been the same as weddings at 25 people. I respect that the Government was able to look at that and decide it was necessary to change it.

Now I am respectfully asking the Taoiseach on behalf of farmers from Malin Head to Mizen Head, the length and breadth of the country, and not least in our marts in Cahersiveen, Kenmare, Milltown, Gortatlea, Castleisland, Tralee, Listowel and Dingle. I want to ask the Taoiseach a question clearly. Will the Taoiseach please make an allowance so that those marts can open and that buyers, people who want to purchase animals at marts, can go in and stand around a ring in a socially responsible way? They could do this like our excellent mart managers in the county that I am from have organised. The sellers can operate on a rota system coming in and out. I am not talking about a free-for-all under any circumstances.

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