Covid-19 Pandemic
Seanad Éireann — 2021-11-09
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Marie Sherlock (LAB), Labour Panel

Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. The question was what the scope of the review will be, who will conduct it and when we will see it. Unfortunately, we have not heard from the Department today an answer to any of those questions. We hear there will be bilateral engagement and that the Cabinet will be updated. To be frank, whoever wrote this script was trying to lecture those of us who take the nightlife sector very seriously. The sector takes its responsibilities very seriously in opening as safely as possible in the context of this pandemic. That does not need to be said. What it needs to be clear on, however, is that it will be involved in the review, that there will be an outcome to the review and that it will not be an interminable process with no detail. I ask the Minister of State to relay back to the Department that there is a failure to answer the questions we have sought in this regard.

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Sitting date: 2021-11-09