Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My thanks to Mr. Taylor and Mr. Daly for coming to the committee this morning and for their contributions.

I want to go back to the issue of the roll-out of swabs being taken by staff. Is it not now a priority that every nursing home would have a person assigned to be able to do that on an ongoing basis? Is there now a discussion with the HSE for that to be put in place and for it to be done within a particular timescale? Surely, we could set a timescale of the next 14 days for that to be in place in every nursing home throughout the country. Is that physically possible at this stage?