Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There are the guts of 140,000 people in Irish aviation, many of whom are watching this meeting today. Their concern was that antigen tests were being written off. Now Dr. Holohan is saying there will not be a need for antigen tests from 19 July onwards and that any study that could be relied upon would take longer than the period up to that date.

I became a member of this committee only recently. The committee has had meetings on antigen testing in the past few months. There was one last week with Dr. Michael Mina, whom I believe is arranging a seminar or webinar next week to which the witnesses have been invited. Would Dr. Holohan be willing to meet Dr. Mina's team? It has asked me to ask whether the witnesses are in a position to meet it and even explain to it that what they are saying is that PCR and antigen tests will not be required exiting and entering Ireland from 19 July.