Mr. Jim Breslin:

I will come back to the mandatory form as I am still referring to the early phase. At that time, the recommendation of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control was that we not impose border restrictions because they are ineffective. Italy imported cases from China thinking it was fine because it had banned flights from China, but people had made it to Italy anyway through indirect routes and there was take-off as a result of that. We were operating in that situation but the Deputy is correct to state the first of our cases came from northern Italy. To that extent, it had an effect on us. Whether we had the ability to insulate ourselves from that was questionable given that the individuals concerned were Irish people returning from holidays. We certainly were recommending self-isolation.