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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Could that be a very short answer, please?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Dr. Glynn and Deputy Leddin. The next speaker is Deputy Smith from the Labour Party.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I have a brief follow-up question to Deputy Smith's question on travel. Last week the deputy chief scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control spoke on RTÉ Radio One. Having analysed the data he was getting from various member states he said that movement between the countries does not seem to play a major role in transmission. He stressed the need for local...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Dr. Glynn said that 40% of the cases in Germany are now travel related. Is that correct?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: It will be interesting to hear from the German authorities. The figure of 40% is incredibly high and one would expect Germany could be sealed off pretty quickly in that instance.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I am sorry but I am moving on to the next speaker. Will Dr. Glynn reply in writing to Deputy Shortall? The next speaker is from Solidarity-People Before Profit. Deputy Kenny has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Professor Nolan and Deputy Gino Kenny. The next speaker, from the Regional Group, is Deputy Matt Shanahan.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: On a quick point of clarification, are England, Scotland and Wales considered overseas? A lot of people will be coming from England, Scotland and Wales via Northern Ireland. Are they classed as overseas for the purposes of the statistics?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Overseas?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Regardless of whether they came across the land Border or arrived by air, it is the same classification.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is Dr. Glynn saying that a person who travels here from Belfast and is subsequently identified as a case in the Republic of Ireland is not categorised as a travel-related case?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Okay, that is reasonably clear. The next speaker is Deputy Mattie McGrath.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: HIQA released a report last week. NPHET may have had the benefit of it some time earlier. With respect to mask wearing specifically, it said the quality of evidence was low and it concluded: "There is an urgent need for more research, particularly high quality studies that provide direct evidence on the use of face masks by healthy people in the community." The director of the Oxford...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: What about the evidence being strong?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: The Oxford University Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine did not question the benefit of parachutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Do the witnesses expect the WHO to change its advice on face masks or does NPHET have any contact with it? It has been very clear that people should wear masks where physical distancing cannot be maintained.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Professor Nolan. Deputy O'Sullivan has been waiting some time, I wish to bring him in.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: The Deputy has more time.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Professor Nolan.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Dr. Glynn stated that there were clusters but that he was not at liberty to provide the details. If he does not have the evidence to hand, I accept that as he cannot have everything to hand. Can he provide that information to the committee in writing?