Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-18
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

First, I am disappointed with the presentation made by Deputy Boyd Barrett, in which he posited the coincidence between the reopening of schools and the rise in the number of cases. He has been a long-term advocate of looking at these issues from an informed perspective. We have done our research, as have NPHET and the HSE. The level of cases after considerable testing in schools is 2% at post-primary level and 2.5% at primary level.

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Sitting date: 2020-11-18