Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Pre-legislative Scrutiny of Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019
Mr. Declan Naughton:
When we came back in June last year, we started doing five tests a day and we moved up to six tests a day. At that point we had planned to move to seven tests a day towards the end of December or the beginning of January this year and to provide eight tests a day perhaps two months or so thereafter, but the new level 5 restrictions really impacted on that. Right now, all of the reasons that we are doing six tests a day rather than eight tests a day are down to Covid. The Deputy will understand if I say that we are not quite sure when we will get back to doing seven or eight tests a day because it depends on the progress of the suppression of the disease. As I mentioned earlier, that will have a big impact in terms of us managing our backlog.
Deputy O'Rourke had a second question.
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