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

Dr. Sharon McGuinness:

Indeed. We have reassigned people and others have been seconded from other departments to support our workplace contact unit. We will obviously keep that in mind because the Deputy is right, and we are already hearing those queries coming in.

Part of the work we do is supporting SMEs, as we have been doing for many years. We also support workers. We were talking earlier about learning materials for safety representatives. We have had checklists and templates for the Covid-19 response plan on our website since yesterday and we hope companies will not need to come to us as often. If a representative of a company has a specific question, there is now a lot of advice coming on stream and we will continue to do that.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.