Covid-19: Fine Gael TDs want army more involved in contact tracing

Members of the Army cadets manning Covid-19 helplines in the first wave of the pandemic. 

The army would be better utilised on contact tracing than medical professionals, the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting has heard.

The issue of the deployment of speech and language therapists and public health nurses to handle contact tracing was raised by Dublin Mid-West TD Emer Higgins, who said that this was the wrong use of their skillsets.