Dr. Tony Holohan:

The committee will not be surprised to hear me say that it is not for us to direct the DAA from where we are. The Department of Transport and a range of other Departments are all engaged in the efforts which have to be made by Government to implement the arrangements that it has decided upon recently about the European arrangements. Whatever has to be put in place in terms of the DAA will all, I am sure, form part of the Department of Transport's considerations in all of this. Our preparations - and there will of course be a lot of work happening on this across the health service - will be on all the practical arrangements we have to put in place. These will include continued assurance around the operation of our public health system and preparations of the kind we want to get into making around the delivery of vaccines and all of those kind of things for 2021.