Mr. Liam Woods:

The work in the acute area is likely to take up to the end of 2021. In the community area, the work is commencing and it is likely to take longer than that. It is very substantive. It is very much unit by unit and ward by ward. Deputy Shortall referred to the rate of staff attrition. No workforce plan will provide for that. We continue to have a very high absence within the health sector associated with Covid.

The community work is commencing now. There is a group in place that is looking at that. Ms Hoey or Dr. Sisson might take the question on notifiable disease.