Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Briefing by Department of Health Officials

Mr. Jim Breslin:

I will take a couple of those questions and then ask Dr. Holohan to come in. On NPHET and the interaction with the HSE and what was put in place following the request from the HSE, we had a teleconference with the HSE chair, myself, the Minister, the Chief Medical Officer and the CEO of the HSE. We have agreed to have a regular weekly teleconference, which is minuted, where we go through all of the issues as a collective. It has been very beneficial over the period. The interactions are not just daily, they are almost hourly in between that, but as a centre piece where everybody comes together it is proving-----

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