Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We will be writing to the Government, Dr. Holohan and NPHET and Professor Keogan, the joint chair of the review of antigen testing, stating, first, that we were told something completely opposite, namely, that international aviation was not part of the antigen testing. Mr. Moriarty has said that he was advised that it was last November when the review group was established. Second, we will be asking what procedures are in place to ensure that both the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control are updated with data in real time. We cannot have a situation where we are looking at documents on the worldwide web where, effectively, Ireland is an outlier, when the information is there to show that we are making progress. If we are making progress on the virus, that has to be reflected in how we operate on a worldwide scale. That is something the committee will be taking up very seriously.

I will now move to non-members of the committee. I will have to restrict time. Senator Maria Byrne has three minutes.