Ms Oonagh Buckley:

To answer the questions in order, the decision was taken that we needed to take people out of these hotels where there was commercial business going on because at that time, as the Deputy will recall, the big risk was that the virus would come in with foreign travellers from abroad. While we had residents who were staying in the same accommodation as people travelling from abroad, we felt that was our biggest risk.

We needed to concentrate all of our residents in centres where we were the sole occupant and could apply a greater degree of control over people coming in and out of the centres. As to who took the decision, I did.