Dr. John Lambert:

Going back to the very beginning, I have had criticisms of the whole approach to the Covid pandemic.

In March 2020, when I found out there was no infectious disease representation on NPHET, I contacted it and was told that there was medical representation on the NPHET committee and that if it needed infectious disease representation, it would consult those involved in that area. Infectious disease representation was not wanted on the committee. I had this conversation in 2020 and I have text messages and emails about it. I asked who the clinician was and was told it was Dr. Colm Henry. I said that he is a great geriatrician but that this was an infectious disease emergency, not a geriatric emergency, and that an infectious disease specialist was needed on NPHET. Sometimes there is a reluctance on the part of the Government to get the right people or expertise on the right committees.