There will be one minute maximum for the question, and one minute per answer. I call Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Fairness needs to be the heart of everything we do in how we respond to the public health crisis. That is not where we are at; far from it. Now we have a situation where there will be free antigen tests for Deputies, Senators, Ministers, and staff in this House. However, front-line workers, including nurses, doctors, teachers, and those in retail, will have to dig deep and have to pay up. It is time to deliver free antigen tests for everybody in society. That is the fair thing to do.

Where is the fairness in what has happened to those working in the late-night sector? They were closed down with no warning. They had a 48 hour notice period and there was no consultation with them. That is absolutely heartbreaking. They were last to come back into employment and are the first go back into unemployment. This is happening at a time the Government is cutting the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP. The comments from Ministers on this are absolutely insulting, telling those individuals to go and find another job. Can the Minister give a commitment to those people who will be out of work as a result of these decisions that the PUP will be restored to the original rate?

I have two points on that. First, the key recourse for those workers is the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, which was designed for exactly these circumstances when businesses are not able to operate as normal. Businesses are able to make sure that they can continue to pay the workers through that scheme.

On the Deputy's earlier point about antigen testing and the Oireachtas, we all know that that proposal came from the Houses of the Oireachtas Service. My understanding is that the Whips will be in communication, I presume through the Business Committee, about how we cover the cost so that we are not treated in any way differently from any other section of our society. That would be appropriate so that we do not develop a "them and us" narrative. As I am sure every Member recognises, that is not where we want to be placed or the position we want to put ourselves into. The last thing I would say on that is I believe we do need to use antigen testing on a regular screening-type basis, to look for that unknown positive on someone who is not symptomatic. I have seen it work overseas. I think we need to develop it here. It has been held back because of health advice, but I believe we are coming to a resolution of that. It will start with our schools, as we discussed earlier this week in terms of an announcement on that. We should use it in workplace settings - all using the same system.