Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín has called on the Minister for Health to urgently convene an independent inquiry into the cause of excess deaths in the State. 

This comes after it was revealed to him that the number of excess deaths for each month in the last year was higher than the average number of deaths during the three years prior to Covid-19. With more on this Newstalk Breakfast spoke to Anthony Staines, Professor of Health Systems at the School of Nursing and Human Sciences in DCU.