Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputies for their support for the vaccine programme. I will feed in Deputy O’Dowd’s question on the Drogheda Institute of Further Education.

Deputies Pádraig O’Sullivan and O’Connor both referenced rapid testing. I appointed the expert group and launched the report some time ago. It is being embraced by various Departments, including the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We are doing tens of thousands of rapid tests a week now. The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment are both looking at this. I see rapid testing playing a greater role.

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