Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State

Mr. Paul Reid:

What is important is that we are now maintaining all other hospital services, which we were not doing when we had that 334 figure. We want to continue and our ICU consultants want to continue all other services, which is what we are doing. We will manage and we have had surge capacity before. We obviously would not like to trigger that again but hospitals have very clear procedures in place to increase surge as required. We want to keep our hospital services going.