Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2021-11-25
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

The problem we are facing is that we have a pandemic that is not under control and is unpredictable. We have capacity to carry out approximately 30,000 PCR tests a day in our swabbing centres and even more than that in our laboratories, but there are limits to capacity in any system, in any country. When we have a situation where, on any given day, there could be hundreds of thousands of people with respiratory symptoms, there is no capacity that could deal with or cope with that.

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Sitting date: 2021-11-25