Mr. Paul Reid:

I will ask Dr. Henry to address the question on saliva testing. On the testing centres, we have scaled up the number of centres across the country. We were dealing with an average of ten cases per day or 50 cases per week and had 29 centres, originally 48 centres, across the country. We must adapt our centres based on where the virus is and the volume of transmission. We have stepped back up to 28 operational centres across the country because we have gone from 50 positive cases per week to 600 cases. That is where we had to step up. We installed pop-up centres through the National Ambulance Service in recent weeks to directly target communities where the transmission of the virus is potentially high. We have scaled up our centres in that regard across the country. The Deputy will appreciate that when we are dealing with maybe ten centres per day, having 48 centres across the country is not the best use of our teams as we try to get services back up. We must scale services up or down in accordance with the rate of transmission of the virus.

I ask Dr. Henry to address the issue of saliva testing and Ms O'Beirne to deal with the Deputy's comments regarding turnaround.