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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Professor Cormican. Equally, you may have applications for two different types of screwdriver which both do different elements of work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Absolutely. I will move now to Deputy Ó Murchú.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I think Dr. Holohan already said NPHET supports this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: There will be follow-on questions from members. I have quite a number of speakers and we are restricted on time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Please try to confine it to two minutes because the member has two further questions and the time slot is seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Deputy Matthews for his management of the time. Deputy Duncan Smith has seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Professor Keogan to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are very tight on time. I ask Professor Keogan to get to the heart of the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Professor Keogan is talking about self-administered rapid antigen tests, is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are not talking about self-administered tests but about monitored ones.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Deputy. We will move now to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Dr. Holohan, I have to pick you up on that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Dr. Holohan------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect Professor Cormican, we are talking about the spread of the infection. At their most infectious, there is what is called a cycle threshold, Ct, score of less than 25 or less than 30. Is it not fair to say rapid antigen testing will detect the virus at that level over the full spread? Is that not correct to say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about less than 25?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes and that is very high. That is at the rate of PCR tests. It is therefore important that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I would like to have an antigen test prior to boarding which might pick up something that was missed by PCR three days before. I just need to move to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.