Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are many questions there and I do not believe I will be able to answer them all in the minute allowed, unfortunately. With regard to the national isolation unit in the Mater hospital, there is a self-contained unit with 12 beds. These include six lobbied en-suite single rooms with negative pressure ventilation so the virus cannot spread through the air. Two of the isolation rooms are of high specification and are separate from the rest of the unit. They have a different air-handling system.

The Deputy also asked about our support for efforts in west Africa. To date, Ireland has provided direct funding of €350,000 to organisations working on the Ebola response in Sierra Leone and Liberia, which are partner countries for Ireland. The funding is in addition to that associated with Irish Aid's ongoing programmes in both countries. It provided €3.9 million in bilateral aid to Sierra Leone and over €2 million for health and nutrition programmes.

I can provide the Deputy with the remainder of the information.

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