Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As the Deputy knows, the incubation period for this virus is 14 days so any cases that arose in the past five to 14 days would likely have arisen in any case, regardless of whether the Government had gone to level 3, 4 or 5.

To answer the Deputy's question, the main focus has been on serial testing and carrying out regular testing in nursing homes to identify staff and residents who may be infected early so we can identify those outbreaks and deal with them much more quickly than would be the case in places where this is not happening. There is also additional funding for nursing homes and support with personal protective equipment and other matters. I will be happy to give the Deputy more details on that later.

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