Tony O’Brien, Former Director General of the HSE and Columnist with the Business, Dr Ray Walley, Dublin based GP and Dr Sarah Doyle, a consultant in public health with the HSE joined us on the show to discuss why are we seeing the contact tracing system overwhelmed when they had plenty of time prepare for a second wave?

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