Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission

Professor Johan Giesecke:

While we are discussing mass testing, does the Deputy have any idea what proportion of the Irish population would accept it or would like to be tested? Unless that percentage is high, I do not know what mass testing would be good for. Ireland is a democratic country, as we noted at the beginning.