Covid-19 (Health): Statements Dail Éireann — 2020-05-07 ============================================================ Michael McNamara (IND), Clare The Government announced childcare facilities for essential front-line workers. Essential front-line workers are defined as healthcare workers only. These regulations are applied by members of An Garda Síochána. They are excluded. Why is that? --- 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/2020-05-07/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:48:17+00:00 Sitting date: 2020-05-07