Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations. It is not an easy situation Mr. Walsh finds himself in, presenting to the people of Ireland or the people who are waiting for a test that the RSA is more than 300% over where it would like to be, and that it is at 30 weeks where it should be ten weeks on the service level agreement. I am not so sure that the RSA has figured out what actually happened or where it is going. We all got and understood what happened during Covid-19. The fact the RSA did get down to six weeks after that is a testament to its planning at the time. Mr. Walsh spoke about an additional surge, and I wonder if the authority's data analytics are up to standard. If it is mapped against the previous four years and project what happened, so if we go from 2019 back to 2016 and look at the number of tests that were carried out then and spread that across the four years of 2020 to the end of 2023, would there be an increase of 63%?