Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Briefing by HSE Officials

Mr. Paul Reid:

I will try to take the Deputy's first three questions together. I acknowledge that it has been a very frustrating period for the public in terms of how we mobilised and got to our current capacity, because we did meet very significant issues. We encountered huge issues in the availability of reagents, test kits and setting up all the test centres across the country. Setting up the operation we did in eight weeks was not easy. We are dealing with a whole lot of legacy systems, from which we are now extracting these data and automating them. I will not go through the technical detail of it but it was a frustration for us as well as for the public. I just want to acknowledge that.

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