Mr. Dalton Philips:

I would say one would have to look at the data. The Covid reaction has been driven on data, which is why this country is at level 5. The data show, categorically, that the level of imported cases in totality is less than 2% of all cases and in respect of the 14-day average, less than 0.5% of all positive cases in the country are attributed to foreign travel. The data do not support the stranglehold that is on the country today. There are testing technologies, be it the polymerase chain reaction, PCR, or antigen tests that can be scaled and not just open up the aviation sector, devastating as it is for Cork and Shannon, but open up the country.