However, the Government is not going to introduce mandatory hotel quarantine for the UK. During the time that mandatory hotel quarantining was in operation, 151,350 cases were detected in the State, so mandatory hotel quarantining detected 0.39% of cases. Not including the hotel quarantine regulations, I signed in excess of 130 Covid-19 regulations.
If we were to introduce mandatory hotel quarantine, this would be to slow it down. Would the Minister ever envisage introducing mandatory hotel quarantine for people coming from the UK? If we bring in mandatory hotel quarantine - we all hope we will not - I give a clear undertaking here the regulations will reflect that.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 5,118 words from 12 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Duncan Smith and Róisín Shortall; Níl, Deputies Jack Chambers and Brendan Griffin.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 44–69 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 46–69 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 45–64 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 44–66 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 46–67 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 47–64 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 46–65 |
| Question put: | Carried | 68–42 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 48–60 |
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