Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would like to ask about the PCR equipment that was acquired, presuming that large additional quantities of such equipment was acquired and also that staff were deployed in respect of it. Is that equipment adaptable for use in respect of other diseases that may come along? Are they generic machines, as it were, that can be used with different types of reagent if another pandemic comes along or for testing, say, for influenza?