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 appreciate that time constraints are tight and I do not want to use up the Deputy's time but sometimes context is important. We are now doing two things about targets and capacity. First, during the summer we transitioned our capacity to help ensure we could provided a capacity of 100,000 tests on the island and that is what we have now. We have further support for 2,000 tests per day from European labs.