Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed)
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
The second question is on the logistics of rolling out antigen testing. We had experts before the committee last week who talked about Croke Park being a possibility, with 80,000 people in it in September with the use of antigen testing. It was mentioned earlier, I believe it was by Professor Keogan, that a 5,000 person event took 12 people over 12-hour shifts to try to apply antigen testing. Logistically, the issue that must be considered with hundreds of thousands of people going through an airport or 70,000 or 80,000 people going to Croke Park or Electric Picnic is what can go wrong in those situations if it is not controlled properly.
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