Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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189. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider the suggestion by a person (details supplied) that everyone who died during the Covid-19 pandemic would be remembered in a national commemoration. [45086/21]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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As we continue to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemicit will be important as a people that we pause and reflect, take time to remember and pay tribute both to those who have lost their lives in this terrible pandemic and to everyone who has contributed to how we have faced and are facing the challenges together.

The loss of a loved one is always a painful and traumatic event but the pandemic also disrupted our traditional ways of grieving and memorialising that loved one. The Government acknowledges that this is an extremely difficult time for families and friends who are bereaved and is giving careful consideration as to how we might collectively share in remembering those we have lost during this tragic time.