Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Mr. Barry Lowry:

In response to Deputy Lowry, I do not know the answer as to who the specific three are yet. I can find that out later. What I know is that we tested the system, as the Minister of State said, with five different laboratories and all of them did antigen and PCR.

We are very interested in doing both. I strongly suspect that the three or five labs are probably the three to five that did the testing and that they probably all offer antigen tests. We could confirm that if the Deputy wishes.