Hostile exchanges at Fianna Fáil meeting over 'incompetent' indoor dining announcement

Cork East TD James O’Connor called on the Government to give €150 to each person born since 1996 to entice them to get vaccinated

Cork East TD James O’Connor said that as the Dáil's youngest TD, it is getting harder and harder to defend the Government and his party.

Fianna Fáil TDs and senators have severely criticised the Government’s decision to delay indoor dining, with Taoiseach Micheál Martin coming under direct fire.

In what was described as a tense and sometimes hostile meeting, backbenchers vented their fury at what they saw was the “incompetent” manner in which the delay to indoor dining was announced.