Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed)

Dr. Ronan Glynn:

I do not think it will be, for the simple reason that in the vast majority of electoral divisions, the number of cases in a week or a fortnight will be lower than five. We are precluded from giving information at that level for instances of five cases and under. The Deputy will appreciate that in many electoral divisions or areas throughout the country at the moment, there are household clusters. There will be electoral divisions where there is a household cluster and we have to be very careful about giving out that information - indeed, we are precluded from giving some of it.

That said, I am more than happy to look at how we can provide more information. I fully agree that the key to maintaining public acceptance and buy-in to this is information and data. The more we can give, the more we will give. I will commit to that. Professor Nolan might wish to come in on that point.

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