Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Business of Special Committee
Professor Philip Nolan:
Only very briefly. One of the patterns of Irish life, for which there is very strong Central Statistics Office, CSO, and other evidence, is the level of connectedness between electoral districts around a city and deep into the county and the centre of cities. As such we may separate city and county in our heads but they are not separated when it comes to people's patterns of movement and therefore the transmission of the virus.