Ms Niamh O'Beirne:

I will take the Deputy's question. With the swabbing, we expect to have a workforce of in or around 1,000 doing swabbing across our sites. Already, 200 people from the recruitment process have gone through to Garda vetting. We are just staging the interviews and passing people through so we expect the first cohort to arrive from the end of this week and early next week.

On contact tracing, we are looking at a minimum of an additional 500 staff. We have access to 280 contact tracing staff at the moment and the 500 new staff will be in addition to that number. They are divided into clinical and non-clinical staff. We have around 150 non-clinical staff through the recruitment process and 100 clinical staff in the process. Again, those numbers will begin to come on board from the end of this week and into next week.