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Danny Healy-Rae says it's "scandalous" that the Government is "criminalising and victimising" pubs.

"I'll give em hell!" he says.

He says there's "no virus coming from rural Ireland."

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Mattie McGrath says they're not being "alarmist".

Mattie says Gardaí shouldn't be allowed into private homes like "peeping Toms".

I put it to him that the government backtracked on that...

Michael Healy Rae dismissing concerns about outbreaks in pubs.

"You're pointing it one thing in Scotland"

Michael Collins says there's an "agenda" at Government and that throwing pubs (both rural and urban) in with nightclubs makes no sense.

Now in the Dáil, opposition and independent TDs are hitting out at the proposed new powers for Gardaí around "rogue" pubs.

Seán Ó Fearghaíl sighs.

"Deputy Healy-Rae, the man or woman hasn't been born that could silence you," he says to Michael Healy-Rae's complaints about being silenced by Jack Chambers.

Donnelly says there's no confusion over what regulations have penal offences attached to them.

He says new regulations for people's houses, weddings, sporting events etc - "under none of them does it say there will be a penal offence".

Seán Ó Fearghaíl speaking about #GolfGate "hosted by the 'self-styled' Oireachtas Golf Society" (which makes it sound like it's a proscribed organisation)

"Crass collective stupidity or arrogant stupidity or both" says the Ceann Comhairle about #golfgate - he says confidence in the Dáil has been damaged by it.

Decommission the putters.

Ó Fearghaíl says he's asked the Oireachtas Golf Society to disband itself.

Micheál Martin accuses Alan Kelly of having a "tendency to adopt a melodramatic posture"...

Politically speaking, it's a sick burn.

Paul Murphy describes the government as a "dumpster fire" given its "revolving door" of Ministers for Agriculture.