Ms Niamh O'Beirne:

At the moment we have 984 staff who are deployed to testing, swabbing itself and tracing. Around 118 are in contact tracing and the remainder are supporting the community swabbing sites. As we recruit people into both centres we will bring staff back into their normal community roles. Contact tracing has, as we said, recruited just under 280 staff so far and by next week there will be more than 350, so over time we will start to bring staff back to their normal roles. We have reduced their roles within contact tracing already and as we faced the increases over the past number of weeks, we did not take more staff from front-line work. We used staff from HR and environmental health to support us but we did not move back to the community staff. Similarly with swabbing, they will also reduce as we bring in more community swabbers in the coming days and weeks.