Mr. Damien McCallion:

In regard to the costs that were referred to, if we were to run 100,000 a day every day that would be the cost to the end of the year. Clearly, that is not the case. The capacity was built to deal with surges, not for every day such that costs at the moment are under that. They are set out in the briefing paper that we provided today. We have used the Air Corps on a small number of cases when no courier services were available from Dublin Airport, which is built into our price. The Air Corps has been very helpful. I take this opportunity to recognise the Department of Defence and the Air Corps for their support at times, not just in regard to the transport of samples but also in regard to contact tracing, where the cadets were very helpful to us and invaluable in the early stages as well.