Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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1548. To ask the Minister for Health when the recommendations of the report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group will be fully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34158/21]

Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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1774. To ask the Minister for Health when the recommendations of the report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group will be fully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35482/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1548 and 1774 together.

The “Report of the COVID-19 Rapid Testing Group” which was chaired at my request by the Government’s chief scientific adviser, Professor Mark Ferguson, and published on 1 April 2021, made a number of recommendations for sectors outside the health sector, and these are a matter for the Ministers and Departments with responsibility for the sectors concerned.

I have recently established an Expert Advisory Group on Rapid Testing. The group, chaired by Professor Mary Horgan, will support and advise government departments that are responsible for progressing pilots and the roll-out of rapid tests in their respective sectors. The Group’s Terms of Reference and further information can be found at:

www.gov.ie/en/press-release/e2767-minister-donnelly-establishes-expert-advisory-group-on-rapid-testing/.