Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry to cut across Dr. McGuinness but I know all that. I am asking a very specific question. Is it Dr. McGuinness's understanding that the advice I have just laid out, which is the advice this committee received yesterday evening, now applies to all workplaces and is that going to have to be enforced? For example, most people who work in a supermarket will have been in the same large indoor area with each other for two hours. Would it therefore be the case that if a single employee tested positive, everyone who has been in that space with him or her for two hours or more would also have to self-isolate?

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