Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the sentiment expressed by the Chairman that we need as much transparency as possible. One of the things that we have done over the past few months is publish and make available more of the clinical case data and so forth. He will be aware that recently we moved to electoral district data for the 14-day averages. I am working with the relevant groups to make sure that is updated as much as possible.

Another innovation that would help is more real time and localised information on the Covid tracker app. I share the Chairman's push for transparency. During one of the conversations that I had with Dr. Mike Ryan of the WHO, he said that the international experience is - not so much in regard to the Chairman's question to Dr. Glynn around the conversations leading to decisions but around the data, sources of transmission and so forth - internationally they are finding that the more that is available to the public then the more the public engage. I fully agree with the spirit of what was said by the Chairman and we are trying to do it on the cases.