Mr. Andy Pike:

I suggest that it is the responsibility of the Minister for Health. It is an issue for the HSE. At the moment there are two reporting streams. The HSE's public health department tells us that when its officials test in schools, the positivity rate is below 3%. It looks very reassuring. The general index of cases detected between the ages of four and 18 shows that quite a high proportion of the total Covid-19 caseload comes from that age group. That suggests that the intervention in schools is not capturing all of the details of the spread of Covid-19. It does not include cases detected in the community outside of the public health investigation in schools.