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

It is not agreed. I am not exaggerating when I say that the Government is using the Covid pandemic to gag the Opposition and minimise the opportunities for the Opposition to hold the Government accountable at a time of national emergency when people out there are asking questions about the strategy around Covid, around the state of our health services and all the different knock-on issues that are profoundly affecting our population. One of those opportunities, which is being denied to us because of the severe curtailment - we accept there has to be some curtailment - of Dáil activity is Taoiseach's questions. We have asked for this for weeks. The Taoiseach's questions slot, that normally comes after Leaders' Questions, is where the Taoiseach is questioned about the matters under his Department, all the various subcommittees that deal with Covid, etc.

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