Dr. Tony Holohan:

A specific arrangement is in place and advices provided, for example, to volunteers returning to Ireland who are at high risk or have had high-risk contact. The advice is that they should first identify themselves to their local public health departments and that, on a twice daily basis, there should be a recording of temperatures and symptoms. This is the mechanism that has provided for that high-level surveillance. Like every other arrangement that is in place, we would never say that our plan is static. We respond to the intelligence we receive from the international community, continually assess it and feed it into the adaptations that we might need to make to our plans, for example, the novel arrangements that are now being pursued in the US to provide for support teams from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, to help hospitals in handling infection control procedures that authorities there probably imagined were fit for purpose but have turned out not to be as robust as they might have liked. Every country must be able to respond dynamically to evolving information. If we find that our plans and procedures need to be strengthened further, that is exactly what we will do. However, our current arrangement is in line with what will happen internationally. Dr. O'Flanagan may have something to add.