Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to comment on one other area, which is not necessarily for Ms O’Beirne to deal with. In the context of testing individuals entering the country at airports, a number of people are trying to sell kits that do these 20-minute tests, 40-minute tests and one-hour tests. Most of the international research so far is very dubious on the effectiveness of those tests. I would be very anxious that in their programme, the HSE and NPHET would be advising the development of air corridors with areas of like infection, rather than going with some half-baked testing idea that gives us no real protection. To be honest, I would not have anybody coming into the country from the United States at this moment, regardless of whether he or she has passed a test at all, be it a 40-minute test or a four-hour test. I do not think we should have people from the United States coming into our country. I would be interested to hear that the view is as I hope it is, namely, that we would stick exclusively with like-for-like air corridors.