Dr. Tony Holohan:

Just to stress the point. Hospitals will have a capacity, via their emergency departments, if the need arises to isolate individuals for the purpose of assessing them. As Dr. Flanagan has said, the vast majority of these patients will not have Ebola but some other infectious disease. We expect that hospitals will be in a situation to conduct those assessments.

One of the things that is happening at the moment, and we have been talking about the HSE's hospitals team about this, is that the assurance arrangements we need to have are in place and everything that needs to be done at the level of each hospital is being done and is in place. We have been working on those, and that checklists are going to hospitals to ensure they are doing all the things they need to do. That will include arrangements, such as the ones we have spoken about, to make appropriate assessments of individuals.