Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses. I will direct the following question to Professors Kearney and Staines. We had representatives from the aviation sector in here two weeks ago to discuss the effect of Covid on the entire sector. Our two airlines are both haemorrhaging money and the one that used to be the national airline is in severe difficulty. The aviation sector represents approximately 9% of the economy. Would the witnesses be prepared to modify their plan to allow for random testing of airline passengers coming into the country? If a flight has 200 passengers, we could pick out ten or 20 to be tested and try to see what is the rate of infection in those, regardless of whether they are coming from green zones.