Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will continue on the subject of testing. It was pretty frightening to hear a report on "Six One News" yesterday about a reagent that is necessary for rapid testing. There is a limited supply. I want to know what the Government is doing to deal with this. We need all Government resources to be put into community testing, as said by Deputy Munster. We need to consider the possibility of mobile testing units that can be introduced where they are absolutely necessary. We need to make sure we do not have staffing problems as people are redeployed to the positions they were in prior to their being deployed to carry out contact tracing and prior to their having been involved in the trace-and-isolate infrastructure. We need to make sure we have the capacity to do the business we need to do or we will shut this entire State down.

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