Covid-19 Pandemic
Dail Éireann — 2020-12-01
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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (SF), Cork South-Central

I am glad to see the Minister engage with this - other Ministers would have taken the attitude that it was nothing to do with them - but I would like to see her engage with it more. She will be very aware that one of the key trade unions in the sector has made this a point on which it is engaging with the Department and the HSE on potential industrial action, which is a very serious thing we all want to avoid, I am sure. The issue of criteria is one of the key points, so if we accept that that is static and is not being reconsidered, that potentially creates a problem. There are also some contradictions, or at least difficulties, that have been created on the ground - for example, where more than one child in a school or a household contracts the disease. What is the date on which a child returns if another child at home has the disease?

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Sitting date: 2020-12-01