Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not agree with the Taoiseach's last statement. In fact, the two are intrinsically linked. Testing, tracing and isolating are the only things that will see the country open up in such a way that it will not have to close down again because we do not have a testing system. I again ask the Taoiseach to ask the HSE to produce a roadmap that underpins the Government's roadmap in the way in which I have suggested, that is, that we set and define targets that we can reach through testing, tracing and isolating. The Taoiseach says it is difficult to get tests to Germany. I appreciate that, having been in the logistics industry all my life, but we have 26 laboratories here in Ireland and I am fully aware that some of them are prohibited for some reason from testing nursing home samples. I do not fully understand that but without a shadow of a doubt it should be looked into. We should be using all our capacity in our 26 laboratories.

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