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 do not suggest that the Deputy's question is hypothetical. It is not. As we move through the summer, so long as we stay on track epidemiologically and things do not go wrong in terms of the Delta variant or some surge in infection that we do not want to see happening, we will continue to increase during July and August. If we get to the end of August and we have not seen a challenge, we think that at that stage we will have sufficiently high levels of vaccination - it remains to be seen whether we get the levels of vaccination we hope to get by then - to be able to resume much closer to normal activity. The sector itself will then put in place arrangements in that regard.

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