Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Testing and Tracing

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I wish to put formally on the record my request that the minutes of the expert advisory group are published up to date. I do not know how many times I have asked for this. It is boring how many times I have had to ask. It is even more important that these minutes are published and that we know what the experts are saying at a time when there is very significant pressure from industry to lift restrictions. We have heard about some of the dangers that could arise from lifting restrictions, and we do not know what the expert group thinks. There is a five-week lapse in the information available to us about what the experts are saying. I am currently limited to five minutes to ask questions of the experts. It is just preposterous, frankly. This is a formal request that we have the minutes of the expert advisory group published as soon as they are signed off, and put up on the website.

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