Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion

Dr. Tony Holohan:

As I said earlier, a process is in place. The Government has decided on the basis of the Minister's proposal to establish a group led by Professor Brady that will be focused on strengthening our responsible public-health point of view and its focus will be on public health. The extent to which we can be of assistance to that group, we will try to draw on whatever lessons we can from the objective data and our performance relative to those. We are doing some work to compile that and any other lessons that NPHET might be in a position to assist that group with. Professor Brady and most of the members of the group have been selected as people from outside the country or outside of our immediate pandemic response to provide a one-step-removed assessment of the issues that need to be addressed to strengthen our response so that we can have a level of independence.

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