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I asked the Minister for the Environment and Climate whether Government would fully co-fund Pillar 2 environmental measures and whether farmers who were already farming in a sustainable way would be required to reduce herd numbers by the same percentage who were not.

For all the billions of euro that have been spent addressing the pandemic, the Government has failed to build sufficient hospital capacity. Full video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcIDQxtJUPc

The need for international peer review of NPHET's modelling, recommended in the Covid-19 Response Committee Report of 8 October 2020, has never been starker.

€1.8 million in taxpayers money has already been wasted sitting in the Convention Centre. I today called for the Dáil to be returned to Leinster House.

The latest proposals from NPHET to restrict indoor hospitality to the vaccinated only are practically unworkable, legally dubious, and contrary to a decision already made by a democratically elected government. Who is in charge and why is NPHET unlike it European counterparts not coming with any proposals other than restrict society and the economy?

I asked Junior Transport Minister Hildegarde Naughton why the medical advice being obtained by the Department of Transport is so clearly different from the medical advice being given to the European Commission and other member states.

It is a pity that the Dáil couldn't have a proper debate on an appropriate response to the climate emergency.

Some mainstream media coverage in Ireland is adding to the high levels of stress and anxiety amongst the population.