Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We already agreed to write to the Department of Transport to ask that it engages with Professor Ferguson to set up a pilot scheme. The Deputy has put forward the construct of what that pilot scheme should look like. We will include that in the recommendation. Other matters may come up in the course of the meeting. We have already taken a decision today. We will write to the Department immediately, asking it to set up a pilot scheme. Clearly, the construct of looking at a particular flight over and back to the UK where, as Professor Ferguson said, it already has the structures in place, absolutely needs to be done immediately. We have Professor Ferguson before us today and there has been no interaction with the Department of Transport on a report that is groundbreaking but very straightforward. The report is now a month old. This testing should have been going on for the last number of weeks. We still have sufficient time so, certainly, the construct around such a pilot scheme should be included in our recommendation.

We will move on to the Green Party slot. Deputy Matthews has four minutes.