Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed)
Mr. Paul Reid:
I will come in on that question. First, the 800 figure refers to applications for the nursing home support scheme and, as such, they are applications from a range of sources. We cannot give a definitive number of people who were tested, but it can be assumed, as Mr. Breslin said, that guidance to our hospitals was very strong guidance. It was not a request but a direction. That was the protocol and process to test people on 10 March. That was the guidance at that stage.
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