Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Digital Green Certificate and Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion

Mr. Ivan Bassato:

We have a limited interaction with the agencies the Deputy talked about. Of course, we have in Italy, as in other countries, a supreme scientific panel or committee of scientists and researchers supporting the government in its decisions. Of course, we interact with this body or committee.

For example, we presented this protocol at the beginning and received some comments to adjust the protocol that, in the end, was passed by a decree of the government. We have more interaction with representatives of the government, especially the minister for transportation, as is normal in such circumstances. With the scientific bodies advising the government, we had formal, limited interaction but it was interaction on the operation of the protocol and with certain inputs from the scientific body to modify the protocol.