Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Maybe not all. I stand to be corrected on that. As is his right, the Deputy advocated articulately for a zero Covid approach. He also advocated for mandatory hotel quarantining for everyone regardless of whether there was any risk or rationale for doing so. It would not have been constitutional as a public health measure. It was interesting to hear Deputy Paul Murphy speak about the need for us to respect civil liberties. The mandatory hotel quarantine system that he advocated for did not remotely seek to achieve any balance between the rights of the person in terms of his or her liberties and the rights of other people in terms of keeping the community safe. It did not matter where people were coming from or what the public health assessment was, everyone would have had to go into quarantine. I was curious to see if he would support this, given that he supported-----

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