Michael McNamara TD
@MlMcNamaraTD
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Independent candidate for Ireland South in the European Elections. Honoured to represent Clare.
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I will be contesting the European Parliament election in the Ireland South constituency on June 7th.
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I am voting against the proposed extension of emergency legislation because it allows for the restrictions to basic human rights and ordinary human activities to be rolled over indefinitely.
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I am not opposed to public health doctors giving public health advice. I am opposed to extending the abdication of government to an unelected and unaccountable body. It is undemocratic and unsafe.
Full Speech -
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I asked for evidence that Covid passes have reduced transmission. I also pointed out the failure to address overcrowding in healthcare settings where the greatest number of clusters have taken place in the last 8 weeks.
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The RTÉ board has to go. The licence fee has to go.
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In four months nothing has changed. Now we're told nothing will will change for another four months. Lockdowns must end.
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There's a disconnect between what the Government does and what it says on immigration. There's also a lack of transparency on key data.
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The Government has spent over €800,000 on Ukrainian pets brought to Ireland. I asked why.
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Children playing, as they’ve done since the dawn of time and through previous pandemics, are the latest “threat” to us all. We really are becoming a very sick society.
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The latest proposals from NPHET to restrict indoor hospitality to the vaccinated only are practically unworkable, legally dubious, and contrary to a decision already made by a democratically elected government. Who is in charge?
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I'll be voting in the Dáil against the proposal to further extend the extraordinary Gov powers to shut down sections, or all, of our society & economy. The use and abuse of these powers has been particularly ruinous to our tourism & aviation sectors, including Shannon Airport.
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I will be voting against the Government's proposal to extend the emergency powers in respect of indoor hospitality.
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When your modelling turns out to be well wide of the mark again, blame the public?
NPHET must stop usurping the role of a democratic government unless it wishes to undermine its legitimacy and instead concentrate on its role as government advisers.
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Suicide figures for the second quarter of 2021 were up 192% on the same period last year. 78.1% were male. The cause of this tragic and alarming increase must be urgently investigated with an open mind.
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I was asked on the next
@RTEUpfront
about immigration. I said I would point out that
@HMcEntee
was failing to make decisions on leave to remain applications and outline how many people are waiting in Direct Provision and for how long. I was dropped from the show.
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I will be contesting the European Parliament election in the Ireland South constituency on June 7th.
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I will be voting against the measures proposed by Government under the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021.
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Outlining to EC President Ursula von der Leyen the role of neutral, non-aligned States, like Ireland, in bringing about a peaceful end to conflict, I asked that this position be reflected in EU policy.
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The EU Migration Pact is comprised of several different pieces of legislation on which the European Parliament voted separately. Lumping them all together into one vote, which will remove the opt-out that Irish people voted for in the Lisbon Treaty, is profoundly undemocratic.
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What happened to
#TruthMatters
,
@rtenews
? it is simply untrue to suggest the that the Constitution is a barrier to funding disability services and carers. The only barrier is the Government’s choices.
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The same Department ceased processing passports applications during 2020 (without any lawful basis) to enforce lockdown.
Maybe hypocrisy is an inevitable part of such a hysterical response.
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3,285 people arrived to Dublin Airport without a valid identity document in 2023, down from 4,968 people in 2022.
It is an offence under the Immigration Act 2004 for a non-national over 16 to land in the State without a valid travel document*
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Disastrous news for Aer Lingus workers in Shannon Airport and the Mid-West region today. The pandemic has done huge damage to the aviation sector. The Irish government's response to Covid has been unique in Europe at least, in making a bad situation worse.
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I asked the Taoiseach when he thought civil disobedience became legitimate if democracy is reduced to a tyranny of a narrow majority.
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Legal advice leaked to bolster the Yes campaign shows the Attorney General advised that it is “difficult to predict with certainty” how the Irish courts would interpret the concept of “durable relationships'."
Yet throughout Government ministers said it was clear.
#VoteNoNo
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A doctor unafraid to question the consensus and he paid the price.
May he rest in peace.
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A Belgian scientific research station in Antarctica is dealing with an outbreak of Covid-19, despite workers being fully vaccinated, tested before arrival, and based in one of the world's remotest regions.
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Ten months after it was highlighted at the Covid Response committee, Government has requested NPHET to exclude Covid-positive patients from daily case figures if they were not hospitalised because of the virus.
Varadkar wants clearer data on hospital admissions as Delta threat grows
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I have received a response from the HSE in relation to my Parliamentary Questions about overall expenditure on PCR testing to date, and the cycle threshold (Ct) value being used in laboratory PCR testing.
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Let’s remember the eminent scientists that were hounded for probing and disagreeing. Time will tell who was more right and less wrong. But it’s already clear that those who sought to silence questions and alternative proposals are very dangerous people.
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I am calling for
#VoteNoNoRef24
in tomorrow's family and care referendums. I urge people to inform themselves if they don't know what they are about and I urge people to vote. It's your Constitution.
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This government's plan to have one million electric vehicles on our roads by 2030 is disconnected from today's reality.
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€1 million per month was spent by the Government accommodating pets from Ukraine, on top of the €800k spent transporting them.
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A photo-op is not an adequate response.
There is no excuse for violence on our streets and those responsible will be brought to justice. I was briefed by Gardaí in Store Street today, and we also discussed how we are:
🔹Recruiting more Gardaí
🔹Introducing tougher sentences
🔹Giving Gardaí the tools to fight crime
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There is no Regulation or law that prohibits communions or confirmations contrary to the Taoiseach's assertion.
The fact that the state broadcaster unquestioningly spreads this disinformation is no longer surprising but is ironic given its own campaign about disinformation.
Taoiseach says he accepts the restrictions around holding Communions and Confirmations is "very difficult" but warned against any "unilateral breaching of regulations"
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It becomes clearer that this is a coercive rather than protective measure. It also becomes more arbitrary in its discrimination.
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This will irrevocably destroy our tourism, aviation, and multinational sectors and, ultimately, the economy that funds our healthcare system, education system etc.
Breaking: US, France, Germany and Italy set for Ireland’s new mandatory hotel quarantine list
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After being told it was “almost impossible” to stop transmission of the new variant, outbreaks are greatest in healthcare settings where masks are mandatory, the Government is bringing in new legislation for masks, presumably to be seen to be doing something even if it's futile.
The Cabinet has heard that some early work is underway on legislation that could make mask-wearing compulsory again in certain settings
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I opposed another extension of the
#COVID19
emergency powers and the Government's refusal to accept an amendment providing for democratic scrutiny of regulations made pursuant to those powers.
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'"Nphet kept masks to get more kids vaccinated but that was always going to be challenging as parents don’t rush to get their kids vaccinated and they don’t really get sick from it,” a Government source said.'
What a failure of government...
Facemasks expected to be dropped for shops, public transport and schools
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The unparalleled scale of PCR testing in Ireland - to the exclusion of antigen testing - has led to astronomical costs being incurred. Government must explain why we had so much, and such expensive, PCR testing and stalled antigen testing despite an expert report calling for it.
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The proposed legislation on indoor hospitality is being rammed through the Dáil without proper debate. It sets our country on a slippery slope towards similar discrimination being extended to other aspects of society.
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Easy to spot the government-controlled media outlet, isn’t it?
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Closing down our power stations in the midst of an energy crisis in the hope that we will replace them with green energy sources at some indeterminate time in the future ill-serves this State.
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The State’s public health team is set to consider mandatory vaccination with a new paper being prepared by the Department of Health on the legal and ethical aspects of such a move
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With €134 million being spent every week on PUP to keep healthy working people at home, and the USC typically bringing in €76m a week,
@Paschald
, what new taxes are you planning to pay this money back when the bubble bursts?
#LetPeopleLive
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Did you even read the regulations that you signed into law, which contained penal provisions relating to religious services,
@DonnellyStephen
? Now that priests are being fined, will you now correct the record of the Dáil?
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NPHET's confirmation that it hasn't discussed the Govt's Expert Panel Report on Covid Rapid Testing and its reluctance to accept the EU Commission's common list of
#antigen
tests demonstrate an intent to maintain Ireland's outlier position on travel and antigen testing in the EU.
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€24.7m was spent on Mandatory Hotel Quarantine, which detected 0.39% of all cases detected in the State during its period of operation. MHQ is a costly but largely futile measure to be seen to be doing something.
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The vilification of farmers by those who could not keep a hen or grow a potato is not sustainable environmentally, socially, or economically.
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So
@EY_Ireland
developed a government plan for "a dystopian surveillance system using information CCTV, credit card transactions and mobile phone data to ensure people were adhering to social distancing." Dangerous times.
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More misleading reporting by RTÉ to suit the government narrative. It’s endless.
3,600 submissions were received by Dublin City Council of whom 56% of those who travel by car agreed with the proposal.
So, in fact, a tiny minority of the 0.5 million car owners in Dublin agreed.
Members of the public, including a majority of motorists, have voiced their support for a controversial proposal to significantly reduce car traffic in Dublin city centre
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Can you
@jackfchambers
explain why capacity has been set at 500 for the Clare v Cork game when the same venue hosted 3,000 spectators three weeks ago? We're aware of Delta but also that there will be further variants. Supporters are rightly annoyed given the match is only on Sky.
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ARTICLE 28.3 Constitution of Ireland
1° War shall not be declared and the State shall not participate in any war save with the assent of Dáil Éireann.
The Dáil did not assent tonight to the participation of the Defence Forces in the EU Military Assistance Mission to Ukraine.
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I asked if the Tánaiste was happy with oversight of spending in the Department of Integration now and when he was Taoiseach, when it paid to accommodate pets from Ukraine, given his insistence, earlier today, on “efficiency and value for money” on cancer care spending.
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Where’s the herd immunity we were promised by so many “experts”?
More than 90% of people in Ireland have been vaccinated against Covid-19, while three-quarters of people said they had received at least one booster vaccine, according to a new survey
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On 1 July, an EU Regulation to facilitate free movement, binding on every EU state came into force. The Taoiseach didn't even seem aware of new Irish Regulations, made on 4 July, invalidly continuing the offence of “non-essential travel” to EU states.
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A strategy of indefinitely going in and out of
#lockdown
will not work.
Interview on
@ClareFM
#level5
#COVID19ireland
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On 22 March, the High Court delivered a judgment raising "serious concerns" about the Department of Justice's handling of information that should have led to somebody being registered on the sex offenders register.
It did nothing until until it was raised in the media last week
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"Not a single government has published a cost-benefit analysis to justify lockdown policies—something policy makers are often required to do while making far less consequential decisions"
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“Who is running the country?”
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The role of public service broadcasting is to hold the government to account, not to protect the government.
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In outlining my opposition to yet another renewal of "emergency" powers on Covid-19, I explained how the Government has been reckless with people's health.
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Given the Government's proposal to extend far reaching and extraordinary emergency pandemic powers, the least we could do is allow for it to be fully debated.
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The HSE has spent €11.75 million on Covid-related advertising in addition to a €0.53m spend by the Department of Health.
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When a Government knowingly breaches citizens' rights because it's politically expedient to do so, it loses the moral authority to compel people to adhere to the measures it adopts.
#MHQ
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Many NGOs in Ireland are, in fact, GONGOs, dependent on Government funding. Hence, this Minister’s approach.
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The Department of the Taoiseach has spent €27.3 million to date on COVID-related TV, radio, print and online advertising, bringing the total advertising spend by the Government and the HSE to €40m.
The HSE has spent €11.75 million on Covid-related advertising in addition to a €0.53m spend by the Department of Health.
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NPHET's modelling upon which Government based this
#lockdown
was clearly inaccurate. Due to 3-week timelag for measures to take effect, it's clear people had modified behaviour before the introduction of lockdown. Incidence was already falling. 55,000 needlessly out of work!
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It's time for the Government to stop blaming the public, and instead start implementing measures to enable people to live more safely alongside Covid.
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Ministers ruled out vaccine passes as discriminatory and unenforceable up to the weekend before NPHET instructed their introduction. They rammed them through within a week.
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No mention of extra trains, buses, etc. This Government’s response to crises is to make orders - to restrict citizens’s activities, impose bans, speed limits - but no plans for the state itself to do anything to improve the situation.
Sounds familiar…
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The difference of approach between the professors at the Harvard and Stanford Schools of Medicine, , and the professor at the TCD Department of Genetics, , is striking and worth taking a few minutes to consider. (1/2)
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Our response as a State and as a society needs to be proportionate. Measures that are not necessary will do irreparable damage.
#NPHET
needs to explain to the people and their representatives in this democracy why this recommendation is necessary and proportionate.
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From 1-5 April in Germany, public religious services were to be cancelled, large family gatherings banned and most shops closed until the U-turn. We've been doing all that since January and until 5 April. It’s our new normal. It will be continued. Enough!
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I spoke against the Government’s bill to allow for the restrictions and lockdowns to be introduced until at least November with the possibility of a further extension thereafter.
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The Government's restriction of rights, including the right to freely practice one's religion, in response to Covid is unparalleled in Europe, and puritanical in its willingness to impose great social and economic damage in pursuit of the unattainable ideal of Covid elimination.
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In case you wonder how governments get so out of touch, they stop listening to backbench TDs and, instead, just tell them how to vote because their “special advisers”, who don't have to deal with constituents, know better.
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Disability groups and advocates call for a No vote in the “care" referendum. A government which has largely ignored them up to now, offers them money as if they were stupid, not disabled.
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People have used savings to take families on a first foreign trip for years before it's made unaffordable by inflation (in part caused by policies you advocated in 20-22 from an RTÉ post).
Migrant workers are missing important personal/family engagements.
Check your privilege.
Another way to think about delays at airports:
We are in a climate emergency, since a vote of the Dail in 2019. If you’re on an international flight you are in the 4% of the global population that will ever do that in their entire lives. Check your privilege.
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“Can anybody find me somebody to blame?”
To the tune of Somebody to Love by Queen. Works quite well:
Ooh, each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
(Take a look at yourself) Take a look in the mirror and cry (and cry)…
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These powers were to be for a limited time - until Nov 2020. Instead, they have increased in scope and duration. If
#COVID19
is still with us after this summer, we cannot continue to respond with lockdowns and restrictions while our paltry healthcare capacity remains unchanged.
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I voted no confidence in the Justice Minister as there must be political accountability for reduced Garda numbers, the number of Gardaí on patrols, and the low morale of members and their lack of faith in management, all of which has led to an increase in anti-social behaviour.
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Following criticism by the High Court of the failure to include a person on the sex offenders register after being informed by UK authorities of a relevant conviction there, I asked the Tánaiste if he had confidence in the Department of Justice and its stewardship.
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Nowhere more ridiculous than Ireland now with a MHQ policy based on hysteria & xenophobia that's alienating EU member states/allies. Only bluster from
@DonnellyStephen
in response, no plan to get out of this mess but it seems he settles all legal challenges to his absurd policy.
I suggest everyone tries to calm down with the
#SARSCoV2
'variant scare stories' as this is getting a bit ridiculous.
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For all of the billions of euro that have been spent addressing the pandemic, the Government has failed to build sufficient hospital capacity.
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Shane,
@NTBreakfast
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Time to reverse the Government's disastrously disproportionate restrictions to travel NOW. When Aer Lingus closed its base in Shannon , government party TDs in the region tried to portray it as just AL’s fault, and voted to extend restrictions.
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Simon Harris has a cunning plan to buy positive coverage from the state broadcaster with taxpayers’ funds. It’ll work. Look at how RTE already promote
@dfatirl
and Green Party climate policy in return for direct departmental funding. RTÉ is not independent and he knows it.
Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach in waiting
@SimonHarrisTD
says he is “eager to bring finality” to funding model for RTÉ. Eager to have it done by the summer recess. Indicated he favours “a better- collected tv license system.”
@rtenews
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NPHET must advise on options other that an endless continuation of lockdown, which unlike other European states, seems to have been its only strategy for a year now, unless it wants to lose the public and then, inevitably, blame the people for its own failures.
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“We did serious harm to our children and young adults who were robbed of their education, jobs and normal existence, as well as suffering damage to their future prospects, while they were left to inherit a record-breaking mountain of public debt”
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We desperately need additional hospital capacity across the State but particularly in the Mid West,
@MichealMartinTD
@DonnellyStephen
. We have done so for some time. We're now nearing breaking point.
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The Department of Education has spent almost half a million euro on
#COVID19
advertising. The same spend would have delivered HEPA filter devices to over 1500 classrooms across Ireland.
The HSE has spent €11.75 million on Covid-related advertising in addition to a €0.53m spend by the Department of Health.
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