Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I am going by what is on the gov.iewebsite. I am talking about people who live alone, who may work at home and who are not allowed to have even a single visitor to their homes. That is what I want the Taoiseach to address, not the high-risk categories but regular people who live alone. What the Government is doing in this regard is unreasonable.

The second question relates to what people will inevitably do if they do not have cover for sick leave: they will continue to go to work because they cannot afford not to. As such, what is the Government doing now - not looking at something next year - to stop a repeat of what happened in nursing homes and meat factories earlier this year?

Finally, I have raised this many times with the Taoiseach but I must tell him that the messaging is really weak at the moment. That is because there is no attempt to win hearts and minds. The Government is not being seen as reasonable, it is not being seen as understanding human nature; it is taking the approach of imposing fines and penalties and that is a mistake.

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