We are going to run out of time. The Minister might have a chance at the end to come back.
On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 22 of 449 decisive votes (2 abstentions excluded). Read it as a government-or-opposition indicator rather than a measure of influence — the figure is near 100% for members supporting the government of the day and near 0% for those opposing it.
This is the point of the site: contributions keep the party held on the day, not the one held now.
| Party | Recorded as | Contributions | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC | Ceann Comhairle / Chair | 7,413 | 2020-03-19 – 2025-07-09 |
| IND | Independent | 2,272 | 2020-02-20 – 2025-10-08 |
Membership spells on record: IND 2016-03-10–2016-05-30 · I4C 2016-05-31–2020-01-14 · IND 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · IND 2024-11-29–2025-10-25
We are going to run out of time. The Minister might have a chance at the end to come back.
Just over a minute.
We must move on. The Minister will have ten minutes at the end to reply to what has not been replied to now. I call Deputy Dillon.
I appreciate that all the questions are important but the Minister is going to run out of time at the end anyway. He has a ten-minute slot at the end which will be reduced if we do not stick to the time. I call Deputy Cronin.
I welcome the opportunity to participate in this debate. Once again, I want to put this issue in perspective. Some 52% of Covid deaths, amounting to 4,628 of the total, have been registered since 1 January 2021. Of the 232,164 confirmed cases, 60% have been notified since 1 January 2021. More people have died and more cases have been confirmed in this phase of the pandemic, all of which were eminently foreseeable. I will not use up my time on this point because I raised it last week, but it is important to put it i…
I have a long list of Deputies who wish to raise matters. Again, I ask for their co-operation and perhaps we will get through it all.
I call on the Tánaiste to reply.
There are a number of Deputies indicating and I ask them to be brief.
This is the same topic and I ask the Deputy to be brief. I call Deputy Durkan.
I call Deputy Andrews and will come back to Deputy McAuliffe, who was on the list. Incidentally, this is not a point of order but a point of correction, which I fully accept. I call Deputy Andrews.
That is okay and I am accepting his correction.
I am delighted to go back to Deputy McAuliffe. Deputy Richmond pointed out that mistake to me.
We were supposed to learn from the Covid crisis and we were all meant to be in this together. As I speak, I feel like we are being handed pieces of a jigsaw without an overall picture. We had a speech this morning from the Minister for Health on the fantastic vaccination programme that did not provide an overall picture. Now we are discussing a very specific legislative proposal but we have moved on from the lovely language of all being in it together. I will start with the positives. The Bill before us is short, w…
Luckily I did not hear anything.
He is entitled to speak.
Through the Chair.
Dírigh isteach ar na leasuithe, más é do thoil é.
I am sorry to interrupt the Minister but we are dealing with the amendments, of which there is a long list. The Minister seems to be going through the Bill.
It is unclear to me at this point what the Minister is doing. He has the floor and I am not taking it from him.
The Minister can have as long as he wants. It is simply-----