Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-21
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

We missed a lot of cases in the first phase of the pandemic when people were not tested because we did not have a testing system to the same degree we have now. People were positive and were walking around not having been tested, and they were infecting others. We know that this happened.

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Sitting date: 2020-10-21