Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In response to between 300 and 500 jobs being at risk at Lufthansa Technik in Shannon, the Minister for Transport announced another task force for Shannon. That comes 12 months after the aviation task force reported, with none of its recommendations being implemented in the interim.

Meanwhile, we are implementing the EU digital green certificate without the use of antigen testing and we are an outlier in the European Union in that regard. The Ferguson report, prepared by the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Government the Taoiseach leads, has not even been discussed by NPHET. According to NPHET's minutes, it was never tabled nor discussed. At the same time, tens of millions of euro are being paid every month to a laboratory for PCR testing, the director of which laboratory sits on NPHET. I ask the Taoiseach who is running this country and for whose benefit?

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