Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE

Mr. Damien McCallion:

I am sorry. The total cost of the spend on testing and tracing was of the order of €163 million at the end of August. That is split up between swabbing, labs and contact tracing which would have been a small cost to date but which will obviously increase as we bring more people in on a permanent basis. As such, many of our costs involved reallocating people, people being seconded in or, as one of the members mentioned, in the initial response to the crisis, the reassignment of people from other duties, whereas now as we bring more people in on a full-time basis that cost will rise. That is the expenditure this year to date in relation to the testing and tracing pathway.

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