Professor Philip Nolan:

We are supporting NPHET in it and the Deputy will have heard the views of the Chief Medical Officer on those assertions. My view is that taking all of the evidence available to NPHET, and let me clear, the strategy is not one of mitigation. I have made that clear in my opening statement and NPHET has made that clear in public. It is not a question of living with an ongoing significant level of transmission of the virus. The strategy is one of suppression, suppressing the virus to very low levels.