Irish Examiner view: Asking the difficult questions on how Covid crisis was managed

Government should start by publishing a roadmap for the matters which it thinks worthy of investigation and receive public feedback

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is putting a timeline on the interrogation into the management of the Covid crisis “towards the earlier part of next year”. Credit: Don Pollard/CFR

When full analysis and number crunching is implemented over the manner in which the Covid crisis was managed, there will be a suite of difficult and uncomfortable questions to be answered about policies and procurement.

Some of them will be prickly; others will be politically embarrassing.