Dr. Tony Holohan:

Those are exactly the metrics that we look at. We said that at the beginning, in terms of the advice and explaining the advice given to the public, that when we were making recommendations to Government, most recently around level 5 restrictions, we were at something between 1,100 and 1,200 cases per day, on the five-day average.

We thought at that time of having an R rate - if we could get there - of 0.5. We do know if we will get there. At the moment we are down to 1.0 based on our estimate last week. We will have a new estimate on Thursday of this week and see what progress has been made on that. If we follow that track we will get down to probably having in the order of fewer than 100 or so cases per day. There are all the other associated metrics that go with that which express themselves in the 14-day and seven-day incidence rates, hospitalisation rates and all those kinds of things. We look at all those metrics. We have seen a significant reduction in some of those already but we still have a long way to go. The Chairman has heard us say that and we reiterated that this morning.