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THE MINISTER FOR Housing has been self-isolating for the past week since returning home from visiting family abroad.
Eoghan Murphy made the trip before any travel advice was issued, a spokesperson for the minister told TheJournal.ie.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has frequently updated its travel advice in recent weeks. For example, it last week urged people returning from areas like Italy and Spain to self-isolate as a precaution for 14 days.
Today, the Dáil sat with reduced numbers to discuss emergency legislation aimed at supporting the country through the ongoing public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.
It has been indicated the government would bring in a rent freeze and temporary ban to support renters amid the crisis, which are measures that fall under Murphy’s remit.
His spokesperson said the minister – who retained his seat in Dublin Bay South for Fine Gael in last month’s election – had continued to work throughout his time self-isolating.
“He has maintained a full work schedule via phone and teleconference like many across the country at the moment,” the spokesperson said. “He has not been in direct physical contact with any colleagues.”
With reporting from Christina Finn
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What is a theoretical physicist specialising in string theory to do?
Poor Sheldon Cooper misses out again. Bazinga!
Well done to Englert and Higgs. Thanks to one of my daughters I have an interest in all of this. (Still don’t really understand it mind you)
You see Higgs isn’t just a theoretical physicist. He worked in the field.
Paarrr-tay at Higgs gaff!
Sheldon must be gutted!
I was just going to say that lol poor Sheldon
And yet I’m still only getting 3mb broadband
Its 2mb faster then mine
Deadly! Seeing Higg at the announcement in CERN last year that they had found the God particle almost 50 years after he made the proposal was a great moment.
Higgs, Higgs,….Hurrah! :I
Well done great discovery. Delighted for them.
Great to see both of them live long enough to see their theory proven, and they fully deserve the Nobel prize.
Good job they did love long enough, because they don’t award them posthumously. Plenty of geniuses missed out on a Nobel prize by dying too soon.
*live
I dont know what a tracker morgage is ?
Congratulations to Peter Higgs.
But what if the speed of light varies through
time and space? What if natural constants aren’t
that constant?
That would maybe indicate that consciousness has
existed since the beginning of the universe, and
that the universe is much larger than we
imagine.
Interested? Then read my philosophical
multiverse theory.
Proven? more holes then a tea bag if you ask me. The Standard Model is as much a religious belief as Christianity is.
I wonder why it took 50 years to confirm their theory?
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