Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach may have heard Dublin-based GPs this morning on the media setting out their concerns around the delays in accessing tests and the further delays in results being returned. He may choose to adopt a defensive posture and to attack me but I am working on the supposition that he will take the word of medical professionals who are not inventing these scenarios. These are doctors who deal with patients who present when they are sick, as I did. I had this experience.

They are not in the habit of making up things. The only people engaging in wishful thinking, it seems, is the Taoiseach and his Government.

I want to know when we will get to 100,000 tests per week. I have my app here and it reflects the testing done over the past seven days. We are way short of that number. It was the same last week, the week before and the week before that. The Government made the commitment of 100,000 tests per week so when we will it reach that number?

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