Ms Orla Hegarty:

There are serious concerns about aircraft because obviously one can open a window on a bus but on a plane, one cannot. It comes down to the operation of that individual aircraft. Is it serious enough that there needs to be independent monitoring? I suppose that is a political decision. Data would help in all of this. The HSE is gathering data from every outbreak. They know which schools, crèches and hospitals have had outbreaks but those data are not available. Anything I have quoted today is from publicly available sources. I do not have access to any more but there is a lot more available. I think we have to start using those data, rather than having them in a filing cabinet somewhere. That is how risk assessment could be done and how targeted interventions could be done. They have data about cases related to travel, quarantine, hotels, schools, childcare facilities and nursing homes. If it is a case of inspecting buildings, clearly that is an indication of where to start.