Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The electronic locator form will give us the capacity to follow up on the contacts of anyone who tests positive for Covid-19. People travelling from places such as those referred to by the Deputy would be jeopardising the overall health status of particular communities or schools. It is very important that we have the capacity to contact trace people and the electronic form will give us that to a strong degree. We decided last night to establish a call centre and this will enable rapid follow-up. The key advice, internationally and from the World Health Organization, is the capacity to contact people who may have been in contact with somebody who had or has Covid-19 quickly. This really is the issue if we are to live with Covid-19 in a reasonable way that allows activity and allows people to engage, as much as possible, in normal family, community and economic life. More and more people will go to this or that sector but the fundamentals have not changed in the context of Covid-19, namely, etiquette, handwashing, social distancing and the guidance we introduced two weeks ago in terms of limiting gatherings in households to ten people. Those are the essentials that will ultimately enable us to live reasonably with Covid-19 into the foreseeable future.

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