Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I congratulate the Tánaiste, his Department and its agencies for the flexibility and adaptability they have shown. I particularly welcome the introduction of examinership-lite and the new approach to work, sick pay, the living wage and so on. We are seeing the Department responding to a changing environment.

Is the use of antigen testing rather than PCR tests before boarding flights in prospect? A case is being made that it is being done elsewhere.

We know changes to corporate taxation are coming. The challenge for Ireland as we come out of this is to build long-term resilience. That will involve embedding climate and circular resilience, building a sharing economy and building lifelong learning and digital and remote skills. These are all changes that we need to make. To what extent is there an effort under way to mobilise the capacity of the Department's agencies to address these longer term structural changes? It will need agencies and educational institutions to help companies make the shift. How will that be approached. There is always the risk that the urgent will squeeze out the important but there is no doubt that we have to change our model and build new sources of competitive advantage.