Has the Taoiseach any bit of shame or self-respect at all? He told us many times he would not have green passports. The illogical, alarming, Dickensian and apartheid decision to have vaccinated people go one place and others left outside is shocking. He is operating to an agenda that is clear for everyone to see. It is not an agenda for the Irish people, but for somebody else. If NPHET told him to jump to the sky, the Taoiseach would jump. When will we have an independent inquiry from abroad into the way NPHET handled this? The Taoiseach has just acted at its behest.

Why is the Government victimising the churches again? Nowhere in the statement yesterday or the paperwork does it say communions and confirmations cannot go ahead. Yet, Leaky the Tánaiste has said they cannot. This involves bishops and priests and good people, including Fr. Michael Twomey in my native Newcastle. Hopefully, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan has said he will go ahead. It does not say it in the writing anywhere. Will the Government deny these young children, men and women their right to have confirmations again? They are planned in many areas and have been put back three or four times. The way the Government has treated religious people in this country is shocking. We listened for 60 years to calls for church and State to be segregated. Now the Government is controlling it.

My only concern and motivation is to protect people. I do not want to close anything down. Why would I or anyone want to close anything down? The reason is obvious: there is a pandemic and it has devastated people's lives.

Do the figures add up? There are 48 people in hospital today. Who are you codding?

Nothing ever added up for you during this pandemic.

I did not vote for you, thank God.

If we had taken your advice from the beginning, there would be far more people sick and dead as a result of the pandemic.

You have not met us since last November.

You have been in denial since the beginning of the pandemic.

You are the one in denial.

Your approach is the Bolsonaro and Trump approach. Denial after denial of the existence of the pandemic is your approach.

You do not know what your approach is. It changes every hour.

That is your approach.