Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

People all over the country are outraged by the Government's decision not to reopen the indoor hospitality sector and the insistence that people will have to be vaccinated before they can go into those settings. What is so different about pubs and small restaurants in the Twenty-six Counties compared with the rest of the world? They are open in the Six Counties. We seem to have more so-called scientists, professors, advisers and geniuses, yet we have no one with common sense.

Who does the Government think it is codding by meeting with representatives of the hospitality sector today when it had decided its fate yesterday? The Government wants to get a plan from them now because it has no plan for opening indoor hospitality. It never had one and it does not intend to allow them to open. George Lee said that it could be October before a decision is be made to open it up.

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