Dr. Tony Holohan:

On 12 March, we made a series of pieces of advice around school closures and a range of measures across society which included a recommendation that visits to nursing homes and healthcare facilities would cease. It was a change in our assessment of the disease on 11 March that led us to that point. Up to that point, we did not think that we should introduce such arrangements because we understood that these were restrictions on people visiting their loved ones in places where they live.

I should point out that, in terms of cross-country comparisons that we have done, when considering the length of time between a country reporting its first case and implementing visitor restrictions in the way that we did on that occasion, we were the quickest country in the world. No country-----