Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is the first time I have even been referred to as a magic dragon. There may have been a few dragons in it in terms of the public health decision. I believe that a Dáil debate on this matter is a very good idea. Perhaps it can be facilitated next week because we need a reflection and an analysis on people’s inputs on the advices we received from NPHET on the decisions that we subsequently took as a Government, and on the broader position as we move out now in the next number of months with policies that we need to embed within our health service, and so on, in dealing with any further surges, iterations or new variants of concern. I would be in favour of that.

We had a discussion earlier on the issue of energy prices. The legislation governing the rebate from electricity prices should be coming into the House next week. Maybe that will give an opportunity on Second Stage for a debate on the issues that Deputy Mattie McGrath has raised. That would make sense to me.

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