Ms Marie Daly:

There are a number of issues and I think the Deputy has named them all. There are concerns about their own health and bringing any infection home to the people they might be living with such as their parents. They may not have childcare and may have relied on their parents to look after their children while they went to work.

A number of them would have underlying conditions which would prevent them from returning to work. There is a mixed bag as to why staff are not returning to work. Within my organisation, which has 323 staff, we have five people who are unable to return to work, but that is due to underlying conditions.