Dr. Tony Holohan:

It was not given to nursing homes. It was a broader piece of advice, given in public, that related not only to nursing homes but a range of different actions that were happening over the course of that week. That was the advice we gave in public. We talked about it at the meeting of our National Public Health Emergency Team on that date as it related to nursing homes because we had a substantial concern that there was a lot of unilateral action taking place over the course of that week. A lot of organisations were taking their own decisions about what public health actions they needed to take, not informed by our advice. Our clear concern was to ensure that all of the organisations in the country were operating in step with our advice. That was, ultimately, what happened when the advice that we gave to the Government was implemented on 12 March.