Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

What is the purpose of the meeting and who are we proposing to invite in? There is basic information that we need. We all have lists of people such as science graduates, GPs and many other people well qualified to do it who applied months ago but have not been called. We need a response on that.

There is also a view that, at this point, when we get to 1,000 cases a day, those cannot be traced. The numbers involved are just too vast. That is an issue. There is no doubt that serious time was lost and an opportunity missed during the summer to do this. There is a certain amount we can find out from people. It needs to be a productive meeting. It would be helpful if we had some of the answers to our questions in advance so that we are not starting from scratch.