Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Tony Holohan:
I will ask one or two of my colleagues to come in and support what I am going to say. We depend on the sectors themselves to come forward. What we have seen is the meat sector come forward, very responsibly, in respect of its own staff and put arrangements in place for public health measures of all forms to limit transmission among staff and that has included the use of antigen tests. We are happy to support the evaluation of all of that but that happened because the meat sector and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine stepped forward. Similarly, we are seeing the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, supported by funding from Science Foundation Ireland, SFI, and the third level bodies, coming forward-----
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