A weird part of the growing resentment of NPHET is this refrain of "they're unelected".

So is my dentist, but I'd rather her doing my root canal than any member of the Oireachtas, with all due respect to them.
NPHET isn't always right but it also doesn't decide ultimately what happens. That's what we have an elected government for - parsing that advice and balancing the public health element with the economic and global contexts.
The fact that NPHET is unelected is one of its key strengths. It ensures that, in theory at least, the decisions are made on a purely evidential basis with no constituency to think of.
You lay dying in the street, a doctor approaches and begins to help. Gasping for breath, you clutch his arm and draw all your energy to say:

"Sorry, but who even voted for you you to be a doctor?"
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