The leader of the Labour Party, Alan Kelly, has said a longer lockdown should be implemented to suppress Covid-19 with what he described as a "national aggressive suppression strategy".
Speaking on This Week, he said the border should be policed to stop non-essential travel and that mandatory quarantine should be introduced for all visitors arriving here.
He also said it was inevitable that the Leaving Cert would be cancelled and that it needed to be done within the next two weeks.
He said the focus now should be on how best to assess those students as they move into third level or work settings and how that is done in a "fair manner." Mr Kelly said there has been a "failure of politics throughout this whole pandemic" and that the country