Aisling Dolan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I say "well said" to my colleague, Senator Seery Kearney, who has expressed what I wanted to say. Nothing is fair about what we had to do in the past year or so. It has not been equal and we do not all face the same risk when it comes to Covid-19. We do not all face the same potential horror that we could end up hospitalised. It attacks the more vulnerable in our community and society. As a Government, we must ensure we put measures in place to support our community and society.

In east Galway and Roscommon, there are many businesses with indoor dining and spaces, including vintners and pubs, and maybe one person might be running the business. The challenge is how such businesses will monitor customers at the door as well as trying to operate inside. The question of resources in such small places is a concern.I welcome that the Covid cert can be downloaded to the Covid tracker app. We need to find ways to make it simple for people to show that they have been vaccinated. Let us make this process as simple as possible. This system is there to support the hospitality sector. In the United States it was called a "she-session" rather than a recession because more than 50% of jobs lost were women's jobs, particularly lower income jobs. We need to ensure we put measures in place to help people get back on their feet again. We need to consider the resourcing for very small places to manage the monitoring of that and simplify it. The Covid tracker app is a really good way of doing that. What other ways can we consider to simplify the monitoring part of this?