Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan
This morning.
Further to Eamon Ryan’s ‘false positive’…
Via The Irish Times:
Mr Ryan said he got his first PCR Covid test from the National Ambulance Service (NAS) – which has been carrying out the tests for ministers who are to travel abroad – on Friday morning and it came back with a positive result on Saturday.
He said he went home and worked on contact tracing of people he had seen in recent days including Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and secretary general to the government Martin Fraser.
He said his private secretary was later contacted by the HSE to say the results of the test had actually been “inconclusive”.
Mr Ryan said it is his understanding it is “standard” to have a second test in such circumstances, particularly where the person did not have symptoms and were not a close contact. He got the test that evening and it came back on Sunday as “completely negative”.
Mr Ryan said: “I just followed medical advice right the way through all of this”. He said the advice he got after the second test was to “go about your business as normal” so he announced that the trip was back on.
Asked if he had sought the second test he said: “I didn’t have any direct involvement” and his understanding is the suggestion came from the NAS which had contacted his private secretary “rather than from any approach by myself.”
Seems legit.
Ryan says he did not seek second Covid test that allowed him to travel to Cop26 (Irish Times)
Yesterday: Unrepeatable
