The person who never made a mistake never made anything. I am grateful to the Government for looking back and saying it was a mistake to restrict funerals to ten people and that the limit should have been the same as weddings at 25 people. I respect that the Government was able to look at that and decide it was necessary to change it.

Now I am respectfully asking the Taoiseach a question on behalf of farmers from Malin Head to Mizen Head, the length and breadth of the country, and not least in our marts in Cahersiveen, Kenmare, Milltown, Gortatlea, Castleisland, Tralee, Listowel and Dingle. I want to ask the Taoiseach a question clearly. Will the Taoiseach please make an allowance so that those marts can open and that buyers, people who want to purchase animals at marts, can go in and stand around a ring in a socially responsible way? They could do this like our excellent mart managers in the county that I am from have organised. The sellers can operate on a rota system coming in and out. I am not talking about a free-for-all under any circumstances.

Thank you, Deputy Healy-Rae. Your brother wants to come in on the same matter.

It is a clear question on behalf of the farmers of Ireland. Let the buyers buy the animals that want to be sold.

I wish to speak on the same issue. It is clear that no cases happened in marts. Farmers are hurt because it is only a buyers' sale and the sellers get no look-in. The farmers will not be able to go in to sell their cattle. It is most unfair. This is even though not one single case happened in any mart. They obeyed the rules. Other businesses that did not break any rules feel let down as well. These are an exception. No case has happened in a mart. This will mean a difference of €100 to €200 less for farmers if the Government stops them from going into the marts to sell their cattle. It is wrong. They were doing it in a way that was well-controlled. Managers accosted people and made them toe the line. Everything was run in a way that was perfect and impeccable. I am asking the Taoiseach to look at this again.

We had the litany of the saints when I was a child going to school. We have had the litany of the villages and the townlands. I think today we have had the litany of the marts in County Kerry. The Deputies are fighting a tough battle. Taoiseach, are you going to re-open the marts in Kerry?

Thank you for that lead-in, a Cheann Comhairle. First, level 5 is difficult and very challenging. It is a lockdown. Everyone says it did not happen in their place. I do not know where the virus starts. If one was to add up the list of all the places where it did not happen, one would be hard pressed to find where the virus begins. The virus spreads from people to people. Public health advice is that the less social contact we have, the better all around, especially now because there is such high community transmission of the virus. The incidence rate is so high that they want to reduce any congregation where they possibly can. Unfortunately, that includes marts. That is the position of the public health advice. I accept that the principle of congregation is correct and that the virus spreads most when people gather, meet and engage. We have to reduce people's social contacts. That is the position at the moment. We will keep it under review.

The Taoiseach should have visited the marts in Kerry to see the way they were run.

I have no doubt. I am not casting any aspersions on the people who ran them, in fairness.

My apologies, eight Deputies have not been reached. We will give them priority tomorrow.