Dr. Colm Henry:

As was referenced earlier, the implementation of the rapid test would depend on its widespread availability across all airports and for all travellers. The information that I have is that that is not the case at the moment. The other test - the polymerise chain reaction or PCR test - that we do takes four to five hours. To achieve that turnaround would involve detaining people at airports for at least that time interval. As I said earlier in response to one of the Deputy's colleagues, as we begin to re-open and if we are going to resume passenger travel at the scale, or even a fraction of the scale pre-Covid, we would have to consider any measure we have, particularly coming from countries where there are higher levels of community transmission.