Ireland “locked down for too hard, for too long” during the pandemic – and the COVID inquiry should have stronger powers to investigate.
Ireland “locked down for too hard, for too long” during the pandemic – and the COVID inquiry should have stronger powers to investigate how we got it wrong, Ciara Kelly has said.
Outdoor dining is seen on Suffolk Street, Dublin in August 2021. Picture by: noel bennett / Alamy Stock Photo “I don't want that; I don't think that is right and I think that is disproportionate and I think we got it wrong.”She said the pandemic response was never about ‘health versus wealth’ as was sometimes argued at the time.
“What I don't want to see is the kind of inquiry we had in the UK where there's all these, kind of, gotcha moments,” he said.
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