Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice

Dr. Cillian De Gascun:

I will follow up on that, because they have been signed off by the EAG and my understanding was that they were going to go up online this week. I can follow up on that for the Deputy. We have no problem about our discussions being aired in public. As I said, the only things we have removed is where specific individuals or institutions might have been referenced in the context of a discussion around, as the Deputy said, PPE. Whether that was due to, say, the number of healthcare workers infected or the number of outbreaks, we felt that information, which would not necessarily otherwise have been in the public domain, should not come out through a discussion from the EAG. However, as I said, other than that, everything else has been left in.