Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Breslin for that response. No matter how the data are cut, be that excess deaths, reported fatalities or data pulled from therip.iewebsite, we have a very high fatality rate. As many people with expertise in this area have stated, we should have had a relatively low rate. In light of that, does the Department of Health, the HSE or NPHET have a team in place looking at what the Germans, the Finns and the Austrians did? Many countries around Europe have a much lower fatality rate than Ireland. It is not a little bit lower. For every one fatality those countries have had, we have had five, six, seven or eight. Is there anything we have identified and learned that we are now implementing to strengthen our response?