Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank all the witnesses. I find this fascinating. I am instinctively positively predisposed towards this as a concept so any questions I have will come from that.

On the green zones, I know it is not mentioned but I think it is implicit that if we had a number of green zones merged together, illustrated in a newspaper or media article, that the other spaces would probably be shaded in red and would become red zones at some point. Would the witnesses have any concerns about the psychological impact on people who are living in areas that are not green zones? I was speaking with my colleague, Senator Wall, who lives in Kildare, about the experience of people who have gone back into lockdown in Kildare, Laois and Offaly. He was telling me that he had to get in touch with local services to reach out to older people and vulnerable people who found this quite a bracing and worrying experience. What impact do the witnesses think the green zones will have?