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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh and Professor Staines. I call Deputy Duncan Smith.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Mr. O'Brien wanted to respond to that question.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: May I ask a follow-up question on the issue of trust? We initially approached this with a view to flattening the curve. We accepted that it was going to spread through society but we hoped it would do so at a level that would not overwhelm our health service, which is more prone to being overwhelmed than those of other European states. We aimed to avoid scenes such as had been seen in the...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Does anybody wish to comment on that? I assume Professor Kearney and Professor Staines agree with the approach adopted by New Zealand and the lockdown in Auckland in response to the cases there. Do they also agree with the approach of the lockdown in Kildare, Laois and Offaly?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Professor Kearney said that these types of lockdowns are an inevitable consequence of the strategies the Government has followed, but she also advocates a strategy similar to that in New Zealand, where there is a lockdown in place in Auckland in response to four cases.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thought the outbreak in Kildare, Laois and Offaly was equally a result of a failure to eliminate the virus. What is the difference?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: The last speaker before I put a couple of questions is Deputy Durkan.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I wish to bring in Mr. O'Brien and then the experts. Mr. O'Brien wished to contribute in response to Deputy O'Rourke's questions.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. O'Brien. Professor Heneghan is still on the line. I thank him for staying with us, notwithstanding the technical difficulties. Does he wish to comment on the last contributions?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I appreciate Professor Heneghan has to leave us in five minutes but I will go to Professors Kearney and Staines. I wish to ask a question at the very end. Do Professors Kearney and Staines wish to comment?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Does Professor Staines want to add to that?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Professor Staines. There is only one issue remaining. As we evolved through this, I remember sitting on the committee and hearing from a few members of National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET. NPHET is our equivalent of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, SAGE. It was asked about face masks and the committee was told there was no evidence that face masks were...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Professor Heneghan wishes to come back in briefly.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Do you accept, Professor Heneghan, that there is no evidence that it protects the wearer but that is stops the wearer spreading it, if the wearer has Covid-19? The point is it diminishes the risk of the wearer spreading the disease to others.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)
Michael McNamara: Thank you very much for taking the time to be with us and for staying with us notwithstanding the technological difficulties. I also thank Mr. O'Brien and Professor Staines for coming in and Professor Kearney for travelling from Cork to be with us. With that, I will draw the session to a close. I wish to inform members before we formally adjourn that we will meet the Minister not next...
- Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Earlier this evening, the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Varadkar, told us that he was ashamed to be a Member of this Dáil. Looking around this convention centre, I am a little ashamed to be a Member of this Dáil too, but for very different reasons. We set an appalling example by decamping from Dáil Éireann in Leinster House...
- Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I accept that, but it sets an appalling example.
- Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Will the schools have to tender for those works? I ask that because if they do, the works will simply not be carried out on time. I have one more brief question. Will anything be done to ensure students doing the leaving certificate who are hoping to go to university in the United Kingdom have results in time to take up places in the UK?
- Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Will the schools have to tender for works?
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.