Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Childcare: Impact of Covid-19

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the SIPTU and INMO representatives for coming in this morning and for their detailed submissions, which we appreciate. I also thank their members for all the work they have done over the past three or four months in a very difficult situation. I will touch on one or two items. One relates to the number of people in the healthcare sector who have been affected. Is there a breakdown of the number affected between hospitals, nursing homes and mental health facilities? I believe more than 8,000 people in the healthcare sector have been affected. Is there a breakdown of that number? It is interesting but I know of two mental health facilities and in one of them many staff and residents were affected while in the other everyone tested negative. They are very similar settings but the results were totally different. Is there a breakdown of the figure which would show from where cases were drawn?

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