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Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020): Elisha McCallion: .... In the here and now, we must protect public health against the virus and those restrictions are necessary. However, I cannot help but feel we could have done a lot more in the past few months. We are where we are because we need to protect the health system from being overwhelmed but this is a broken health system, which can barely cope with a normal winter flu surge, never mind a...

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