Mr. Paul Reid:

I want to comment on the issue of Nursing Homes Ireland crying out for help and not getting a response. I may be paraphrasing it wrongly but I, too, strongly contend that we had engagement throughout January, February and March. I met personally Tadhg Daly and the chairman of Nursing Homes Ireland on 19 February. We engaged in ongoing communications and engagement throughout January, February and March. The Deputy is correct that there were issues in terms of availability in early March of testing reagents and kits, and it did significantly impact us on our testing across the country. That was a major factor globally. It was a major factor we struggled with in early March. Similarly, on PPE, we did struggle in terms of PPE across the system, and that was a factor. I would comment that in early March there were requests from private nursing homes for some PPE. On some occasions we distributed PPE. We closed down a testing centre and distributed to a private nursing home. When we got a significant delivery from China on 29 March, the first major delivery, that following week-----