Ms Niamh O'Beirne:

On 16 March, we set up nine contact tracing centres and trained 1,700 people. Of these, 300 people were deployed to the public health departments to support them in contact tracing and up to 700 were placed in the nine centres. We have consolidated our contact tracing centres into one centre in Galway, which is operating with 34 staff. This number of staff can comfortably deal with 100 positive cases per day. Yesterday, we had five positive cases so the centre is capable to do much more than it needs to do. The agreement we have, as I mentioned earlier, is that once we get three consecutive days of 100 cases, we will open up other test centres or remotely ask contact tracers who are trained to step up that capacity again.