One of two new private Covid-19 test centres at Dublin Airport will open today.
The drive-thru has been revealed today, with the opening of the walk in facility delayed until after the weekend
It's expected that a few hundred people a day will be tested at the Express Green Long Term Car Park during lockdown but the capacity could be pushed to 12,000.
There's an onsite lab and prices start at €129 per test.
PCR tests are also on offer but they have to be sent to an offsite lab.
A look at the new private Covid-19 testing centre at Dublin Airport.
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Prices start at €129, with people asked to leave 36 hours for a result.
The expectation is for a few hundred people to be tested a day during lockdown but the capacity could be pushed to 12,000. pic.twitter.com/KokrTNSHnR
It comes as the travel and tourism sector aims to get back up and running under the EU traffic light system which Ireland has signed up to.
Government is still advising against non-essential travel.
RocDoc chief exec David Rock
"The idea behind this facility is that we can help open the airlines and the airspace safely.
"This facility here has an onsite laboratory.
"We're standing behind our mobile laboratory currently, we're building our static laboratory just behind it.
"That'll be ready quite shortly", he told us.
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