Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

For the past number of weeks I have been asking the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health to create a system that provides for quick turnaround testing at our airports and ports to enable our areas to reopen and to ensure citizens are comfortable that people coming here are Covid-19 free. Animal Health Laboratories Limited in Bandon, which I visited recently, can produce results within four to five hours at a cost of €50 per test, as, I assume, can other laboratories here. Why are we not putting these test centres in place at our airports and ports?