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Independent Senator Michael McDowell said he has no confidence in the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) because of the “difference in treatment of meat plants and restaurants”, which he described as “dramatic and inexplicable.”
Speaking at the Seanad, the former tannaist and attorney general said that closing restaurants “goes against the strategy announced two weeks ago by the government that it was going to open these places again.”
He said the planned shutdown “has not been scientifically justified and is incorrect.” And he said that NPHET and HSE “are implementing policies that are cruel, wasteful and extremely harmful.”
Sinn Féin Senator Fintan Warfield said thousands of Dublin bar, cafe and restaurant workers found out through the media that they might be unemployed over the weekend. He said he heard stories “of workers who were visibly angry when the news spread through their restaurant” and that it was “terrible that people had to find out in such a haphazard way.”
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