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:

I may have picked up the Deputy's question slightly wrongly. Our process is through GP referrals and we believe that is the right one. GPs have worked with us clinically. We always want to guard against a situation where somebody has a negative test result and says: "Oh, that is grand. I do not have Covid." However, there are other illnesses they may have so we want to protect the GP referral process. We are looking-----