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 can confirm that we are recruiting a dedicated workforce across a range of aspects of testing and tracing. That includes 700 swabbers who are currently being recruited. We gave some figures earlier. There are 500 contract tracers. In our public health teams there is recruitment of almost 160 people across a range of multidisciplinary skills to resource a chain of testing, tracing and public health surveillance.