Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Dr. Kenny has given us some very good food for thought. As he knows, our biggest concern is getting the aviation sector back in motion again. It is really about providing something to our public health professionals, who seem to have rather undue influence on the Department of Transport because we are not seeing anything coming forward from the Department by way of a plan to get aviation back moving again.

There are a couple of questions that arise. Has Nuevo carried out any sort of comparison between its on-site PCR versus lab-based PCR? Have there been any tests done in parallel to see the accuracy of one against the other? That is my first question.

My second question relates to cost. Can the Nuevo representatives indicate to us what the cost might be at a reasonable scale? I am aware that in a controlled environment where only a small number of tests are being carried out the costs will be higher. What would a scaled-up version cost, assuming that flights were back running at 50% or 60% or whatever? Can our guests give us some idea of what the cost of that might be?