Dr. Tony Holohan:

It is hypothetical. If the Deputy could have posed that question to me two years ago, before this all began, I never would have had, in my answer to any hypothetical question two years ago, the kinds of things that we found ourselves recommending to Government, to be closing retail, to be closing international travel, to be closing schools and universities and so on. I never would have envisaged that even though I would have known that these things were theoretically possible. If the Deputy had asked me this question two years ago as a hypothetical question as he is asking me now, it would not have featured in any way in my answer and yet all of these things have become part of his reality, my reality and everybody else's reality for the past 18 months. It is too hypothetical a question for me to address I am afraid.