Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, absolutely. The Deputy's question about the roadmap for the resumption of services is one that I have also asked. My understanding is that it will not be ready next week and may take several more weeks. It is something I will be looking into with urgency. I will get back to the Deputy when I know more.

On the question of whether legislation is required in respect of foreign travel, my understanding is that there is an ongoing debate on exactly that question.

The Deputy asked whether we can make Covid-related data open source. My preference is that transparency is generally good. We need to ensure privacy where there are issues about protecting individuals but my preference would always be that transparency should be the default unless there are things that need to be closed down.

The testing and tracing plan needs to be looked at. NPHET said that for the rest of this calendar year, we need to be able to do 100,000 tests per week. My understanding is that significantly fewer than that are happening at the moment. There are some good things happening. For example, the second wave of testing is taking place in nursing homes - the Chief Medical Officer has been talking about this - and is beginning to identify cases of asymptomatic staff and multisymptomatic staff.

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