Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Dalton Philips:

The Government needs to make three decisions and it can make them based on the data. Do we carry out pre-departure or post-arrival testing? Everybody has said it should be pre-departure but the Government needs to make the decision.

Do we do antigen or PCR testing? Today, we have heard from Rome airport about a very credible example of where antigen testing is now at a level of accuracy that competes with PCR testing, and is scalable.

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