Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. I have many people contacting me saying they have never been contacted but were clearly in contact with people who had not only been tested but tested positive. In addition, there is a newspaper report today that says we are only using 2% of the people who were employed to do contact tracing. That is very worrying and, again, it needs to be looked at. After all, I think we are all well aware that politicians make the decisions based on the medical advice. That is all I am saying. In order to get our house in order on tracing, the Government will have to take the bull by the horns, put in place a testing system and insist on a roadmap that underpins the Government's roadmap. The Taoiseach has already committed to the latter, and I thank him for that. Then we may well get out of phases 1 to 5 within or before the three-week periods defined.

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