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:
We have already accelerated that. Our original plan, going back to the advice we provided to the Government in April, was that we did not foresee any outdoor gatherings taking place during June. As a result of how things went for us, we decided to bring that forward and now up to 100 people can attend not just a match, but any outdoor gathering during the month of June. We will increase that further in July on the assumption that things stay as they are and we will continue to grow from there without a dependence on antigen testing or anything else because we think the disease incidence is low enough to enable us to do that and increasingly we are getting more people vaccinated. We will continue to tell people that if they are not vaccinated, maybe they should stay away from matches, but if they are vaccinated, they can regard it as something safe that they can do. I was at a match last Saturday evening in those circumstances. It is something that is safe for us to resume.
I ask the Deputy to remind me of his first question.
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