Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. In March and April, the focus was rightly on flattening the curve. Everybody co-operated with that. At the height of the pandemic, there were 879 patients in hospital,160 of whom were in ICU. It appears that great work was done by everyone. I sympathise with anyone who lost their life and the trauma people went through.

However, our objective now is confusing. We do not know where we are. As of 8 p.m. yesterday there were 23 cases of Covid-19 in 29 acute hospitals.