Cork Fine Gael TD defends criticism of government's travel advice

Fine Gael TD Colm Burke said the HSE and the Department of Health need to move quickly to resolve conflicting health advice. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

A government party TD has defended flagging concerns about contradictory advice which is being issued to people arriving in Ireland after opposition TDs said he and his party should be ensuring such problems don’t arise in the first place.

Fine Gael’s health spokesperson Colm Burke said he has as much right as any opposition TD to publicly flag concerns about the handling of the pandemic. And he said it’s even more important that this issue is dealt with urgently after details of a ‘super-spreader’ event emerged over the weekend.