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

It is not agreed. I do not want to waste the Dáil's time by calling votes, particularly if I am not getting support from others. Nonetheless, I will make the point that we have six and a half minutes to question the Minister for Health tomorrow because the Government insists on limiting the time to debate with and question the Minister. We have raised this repeatedly over the past few weeks. It is unacceptable. We have a raging debate about the refusal of the Government to even take seriously the calls for zero Covid. We have a desperate crisis in our health services in terms of sickness of health workers, the situation in ICU, the vaccine roll-out and so on. By the way, we asked that the debate would be about Covid response and not just about vaccines.

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