Covid 19 (Health): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2021-01-13
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

Today we had 63 notified deaths, almost 2,000 people with Covid in our hospitals and 172 in ICU. The Minister now oversees the health service in the country with the worst rates of Covid infection in the entire world. It is worse than Trump's US and Johnson's Britain.
All of this was predicted. It is the direct consequence of the deadly mistake that the Minister made to ignore the public health advice that he got. Does the Minister accept responsibility for the terrible state of affairs in which we are? Will he learn the lessons from it?

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Sitting date: 2021-01-13