Dr. Ronan Glynn:

I thank the Deputy. It is clear that a number of factors played into the situation that led to where we ended up at the end of December and early January. To be honest, it is not for me and it will take time to look back and separate out the relative contribution of the various elements but there is no doubt that increased levels of socialisation, the opening up of society, the extent to which generations, families and households mixed and the introduction of a more transmissible variant at the end of December were all factors that contributed to where we ended up in early January. If there is a lesson to be learned - the Deputy's question was premised on learning lessons - it is a one that we have known previously and it is very important that we bear it in mind as we move forward. It is that when we have to act on this virus we have to act quickly when things are going wrong. On the other side of this, when we are coming out-----