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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: Again, there is an attempt here to undermine the Government's position on this-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: I will accept any constructive criticism. There is no level 2.5. The Deputy should not pretend there is or create that language because it simply does not exist.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, I did not interrupt the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: It is normal procedure here to allow me to answer the questions that Deputies ask. I have answered the Deputy. There is no such thing as level 2.5, as she knows well. I said earlier that NPHET advice came prior to the adoption by the Government of the new plan. The Deputy knows that. There are two issues, namely, wet pubs and people attending matches in stadia with capacities of more...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: That is it. There is no level 2.5 or anything like it. NPHET will come forward with advice on Thursday and I hope and trust that the Deputy will accept whatever decisions we have to take in respect of Dublin, as per the advice from NPHET. I have already begun to see, in the question about different locations in Dublin, people trying to wheedle out of any issues that might arise. The...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: That is the implication in what the Deputy said about localised responses. The acting Chief Medical Officer is very adamant-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: -----that the virus is throughout Dublin city and county. There is no getting away from that. The specific criteria are in the plan. There are seven or eight criteria that NPHET will use to make a decision in respect of a particular county or nationally. 2 o’clock There are further descriptors of what those might be in terms of numbers per 100,000, the R number, the transmission...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: That is not what he said publicly.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: It is great to keep throwing out the word and hoping it sticks. That is what some of these contributions are about. The Tánaiste was very clear. He said very clearly that he hoped there would be a vaccine in the first half of 2021. That is what he said to us this morning. That got translated into something else but that is what he said to us. Most people are saying there could be a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: It is not a deviation. The Government has to decide these things.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: I can recall the Deputy in an earlier phase of this pandemic being-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: I am just-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: I acknowledge the Deputy has been very constructive in acknowledging the progress made in returning children to schools and in supporting the five-phase plan. I also recall that around the time the restrictions were being implemented in the midlands, when there was a rise in numbers in Tipperary, the Deputy was the first out publicly to declare there would not be any severe restrictions in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: Come on, you were very anxious-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: -----that there would not be the same-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not playing politics. It is being on the ball, in fairness.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: It seems that people have different views outside their own counties generally across the House.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: That will manifest itself as well in Dublin, mark my words.