Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Briefing by HSE Officials

Mr. Paul Reid:

The Deputy will appreciate I am trying to give him quick answers, but I need to put things in context as I do so. We are meeting the levels of demand that we have. The capacity we have built up has the capacity to build 100,000 tests per week so it is purely a function of the demand levels at the moment in terms of the answer I gave the Deputy on the numbers tested and the number of swab-testing centres open across the country. As the increased demand emerges by new definitions, those centres continuously open up. We have the capacity to do that.

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