Chairman:

That is excellent.

HIQA brought out its report and provided it to us this morning. Others have made reference to this so I just want to follow up. In its press statements it says:

A cohesive national strategy is needed to ensure the right tests are undertaken in the right people at the right time for the right purpose. Planning now to support delivery of the strategy will facilitate rapid deployment of tests that meet the requisite standards once validated for use.

Can the Minister of State indicate where that strategy lies? Is the 8 November date she made reference to a universal, commonly agreed date among all the European countries that have signed up to the new traffic light system? She might guide us through the timeline. As today is 21 October, we are talking about roughly two weeks. It is a very short period of time. Shannon Airport is obviously beside me but Cork Airport is a huge factor as is Dublin Airport. We are holding a defined series of meetings next week around two key elements: the testing and the operation of the traffic lights system, both of which are interlinked. We will obviously be looking at the overall viability of the aviation sector as well. Everything now appears to be coming back to testing and how testing will work. The Minister of State might give us a step-by-step guide to the period between now and 8 November, looking at what HIQA will put in place and whether we will be ready by that date to have this pretesting in place, both here and in other European countries.