Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Murnane O'Connor raised the issue of click and collect and whether we can restore it for retail businesses. We can certainly give that some consideration, but I cannot make any promises today. One of the difficulties that arose with click and collect is that it did cause people to leave the house to make journeys and interact with other people and there is a public health risk in that. We prefer deliveries to click and collect, but at some point it will come back, although perhaps not for a while yet. We will give it consideration.

The Department of Health will benefit from being led by someone who has a good record in containing spiralling costs. The new interim Secretary General has that record and may save the State a lot of money in that regard but, as far as I am aware, the process to appoint a new permanent Secretary General will continue.

I do not know whether the beef forum can offer transparency, but we will do our best to make sure it does.

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