Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is in the event that it may be necessary, in the opinion of the Department of Health, the Minister and the Government, to extend the power to protect public health. On the other hand, it may not be necessary. The question that arises insofar as I am concerned is whether we are satisfied that we will have suppressed the virus by the end of October or the beginning of November. I am not so sure. There could be a further surge of which I have no knowledge. I have no way of predicting whether that will happen at present.