Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I want to go back to what Professor Ferguson said at the outset about the SAGE report and the testing being carried out in the UK. Is the UK carrying out that testing at the moment and could we learn from any mistakes, or what it is doing at the moment, rather than proceeding straightaway to a pilot? Is that a more effective way of assessing whether serial testing would work? Is Professor Ferguson aware of a pilot scheme operating in the UK, and has been operating for some time, which would allow us to make an assessment on that? Can we get a report on that or would it be for the committee to follow that line of inquiry, to learn from any mistakes being made in the UK? I thank Professor Ferguson.