An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2020-04-02
============================================================

Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

It is not agreed. As we discussed at length at the Business Committee, some of us are very strongly of the view that the Government should be subject to questions, particularly on matters pertaining to the current public health crisis, notably the Taoiseach, the Ministers for Health, and Housing, Planning and Local Government, and other key Ministers who are making important decisions on the public health emergency. There is no reason that could not take place next week. We believe this view is more than compliant with and very much in the spirit of the World Health Organization's view that in a public health emergency, transparency of decision-making and confidence in the authorities are key to gaining public support, trust and compliance with public health measures.
At the moment, most Deputies are inundated with questions, concerns, fears and anxieties being expressed by the public. Those matters need to be put before Government in order that the public's questions can be answered. I see no difficulty in that happening.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2020-04-02/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:48:15+00:00
Sitting date: 2020-04-02