Dr. Tony Holohan:

I am conscious of time. I could say a lot about nursing homes. Yes, the approach has been both reactive and proactive. Reactive is a necessary part of the response. It is the whole purpose of an epidemic response. We must react to an unfolding situation. What we decide to do today might, by virtue of what we know tomorrow, turn out to be something we need to supplement or change. That is the nature of a public health reaction.

The first confirmed case in this country was on 29 February. The advice that came a couple of days later from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC, said there was no strong evidence of transmission of infection preceding symptom onset. That was the advice after we had had our first case.

We know that is no longer true. That is the advice we were acting on at that point in time, and I can go through-----