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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: That is noted.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I apologise. I did not see the Deputy.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: The Taoiseach and the Minister for Health-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: No. The Deputy can respond very briefly and then we will move on.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank both of my colleagues. I note the points they have made. We have witnesses who are waiting, who have given up their time to give us their views, and I would like to move on to them. I thank both of my colleagues very much. I have noted their comments.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I appreciate that.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Indeed.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Before you came in, Deputy McAuliffe, I clarified that the HSE has confirmed that its representatives are coming in next Tuesday. We have not yet received confirmation from the National Public Health Emergency Team but we hope it will confirm that it will come in next Tuesday. With regard to the Executive, I have written to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health and I hope one of them...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: As I said, we have written to it and we hope it will come in next Wednesday, but we are not in a position to confirm that yet. I am keen to talk to the witnesses who are here now.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I welcome the witnesses to our meeting this morning. They are joining us by video link from their respective offices to discuss strategic options for implementing the recently published resilience and recovery plan and for dealing with Covid-19 more generally. I welcome Dr. Johan Giesecke, who is now a member of the strategic and technical advisory group for infectious hazards with the...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank the professor. I ask him to please stay with us for the next couple of hours, if he would be so kind, to answer questions from the committee members. Professor McConkey will now give an opening statement. I ask him to limit it to five minutes. I will be ruthless in order to allow for time for questions and answers.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Certainly. Does Dr. Ryan wish to comment?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Dr. Ryan.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: The first speakers from Sinn Féin will be sharing their ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Dr. Ryan. I apologise but I must cut him short.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Dr. Giesecke's introductory remarks referred to protecting nursing homes and elderly people. If Covid is widespread or at least spreading in the community, is it simply inevitable that it will make its way to older people and into nursing homes or is there a way to stop that happening?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Let us get the answer.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: The question is whether livestock is safe from Covid.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: There is not time. Does the Deputy want to get an answer or does he want to finish his question?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Professor Giesecke and Dr. Schaffer. Who is speaking first from Fine Gael?