Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We will go on anyway and perhaps come back if the opportunity arises. This is why I wanted to bring in Professor Michie. It is around the behavioural aspect of what Professor Staines said about pubs and the difference between having a meal and not having a meal. As I understood it, one of the big issues was impacting the behaviour of people while they were there. Having a meal tends to keep people seated rather than moving around the pub. Is this what Professor Staines is saying? Is it the case that so long as behaviour is changed and so long as people are seated and distant, then the meal is irrelevant? It is the behaviour that is important. Is that it?

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