The government has decided to reinstate mandatory hotel quarantine for people arriving in Ireland from high-risk countries.
The rationale for this step is to slow the amount of covid cases coming into the country at a point when cases are very high in Ireland.
David Cullinane, Sinn Féin health spokesman and Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Fine gael TD for Dun Laoghaire joined the Last Word to discuss.
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