Ms Yvonne O'Neill:

The numbers that relate to an acute hospital admission would be very small; it would be a tiny number. Our public health outbreak control teams do that level of tracing but I do not have the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, data in front of me. Those data are made available to explain the underlying cause of an outbreak. I cannot tell the Senator about the data around the current 193 outbreaks but community transmission would probably account for 90% of it. A very small number would relate to outbreaks in acute hospitals and associated discharges.