Ms Niamh O'Beirne:

I will pick up on the metrics side and I will ask Dr. Kelleher to address the period of four days. The most recent metrics for the past couple of days indicate that in the community setting, which is where symptomatic people go to their general practitioner and have close contacts identified, the median end-to-end turnaround time for a negative result, or a "not detected" result, is two days. The average is 2.4 days. For a "detected" case, the median period is 2.3 days, and the average, or mean, is 2.8 days. That is a for a complete end-to-end process, from the beginning of referral to the end of contact tracing. The median figure for contact tracing in the past number of days is back down to one day. That is the international metric and goal we have been seeking to achieve. We are aware that in the most difficult week, the period rose above three days but it is now back to one day. That is where we would really like to keep the contact tracing figure. We have 91% of referrals in less than 24 hours, when one wants an appointment. Some 95% of people have their swab result back in less than 48 hours, and all tracing is done in less than a day. On the four days-----