Ms Niamh O'Beirne:

Yesterday, we commenced serial testing of all healthcare workers for the next four weeks. We estimate that this will involve approximately 33,000 people across 586 nursing home settings. We will do this for four weeks and produce a report at the end of each week, and at the end of the entire exercise, to see what we have learnt from it and how it informs our testing strategy for healthcare workers in those settings as we go forward.