Mr. Paul Reid:

I know that the coded alert system, as the Deputy describes, is being worked on by NPHET and the Minister has been communicating on it. That is still in the process of dialogue. Ultimately, however, as we have seen over the past few weeks in particular, while everybody had predominantly been talking about when we might see a second surge, I think the reality is that what we are seeing in the country right now is probably what we are going to be living with for the future with this virus. We are going to see significant peaks and, we hope, significant troughs very soon and those changes may not always be national. They could be regional and, in some cases, local. That is the new reality for us in terms of living with this virus and the transmission we have seen to date. Therefore, our plans are now not so much around a second surge and a mass scaling up or scaling down. The focus now is around agility, how we adapt, scale up and scale down, and how we try to get back our services, which I referenced a while ago. We were very strong in our document that it is all dependent on the transmission of the virus at any particular given time. We are constantly focused, every week, on where is the level of transmission of the virus and what services we need to adapt. The focus is not always on the acute services. In fact, at this time, the services we have had to step up are primarily in community services and particularly in public health teams. The situation is not quite as black and white as we might have expected at the start of this, where we expected to see surges. It is probably the case that what we are seeing right now is going to be the reality.