Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases

Mr. Paul Reid:

I will be succinct but as the Deputy will appreciate I could say more. Specifically, what I said was that we were ramping up capacity to have a capacity to test 100,000. That is exactly what we did. In terms of the determination of what we test, how we approach testing and what areas are serial tested, three things drive outturn, namely, the targeted approach of symptoms that we would be targeting for testing, the level of spread in the community and our approach on serial or mass testing, which is determined by NPHET. What I did commit - I want to be very clear on this - is that we would be ramping up the capacity to have 100,000, which we have done.

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