Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I know I am, but I am not responsible for what the previous Government did, either from a policy perspective or in any other areas. I want to be clear about that. We formed a new Government to deal with the essential issues facing this country, namely, Covid-19, the economy, keeping our schools open, investing at record levels in health services and dealing with climate change. That is where the Government is going on this.

I have given nobody any clean bill of health. In regard to the language like "not best practice" and "inappropriate", the latter was a word used by the Deputy's party spokesman on health, Deputy Cullinane.

I have said that this was the wrong way to do things. Is the Deputy asserting criminality or has she asserted criminality?

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