Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank our guests for appearing again before the committee and I compliment them on the work they have been doing. It is a very difficult job to do and there are many critics, not always helpful, but that is the nature of the business, and we know they are well capable of dealing with that.

Politicians generally mention being puzzled about this subject and sometimes create the puzzlement themselves. We will not go down that road other than to say this: South Korea, which was adduced at the previous meeting, has approximately one quarter of the testing capacity we have. I am still waiting for some kind of answer-----