Dr. Colm Henry:

The Deputy raised this previously and is correct to do so as they are vulnerable settings. There is a particular configuration of workers there, who are often foreign and do not have English as their first language. The mode of transmission is as likely, if not more likely, to have taken place outside the work setting, relating to how they live in congregated settings and so on. Our public health lead, Dr. Mai Mannix, has led on this and produced a report for NPHET, which I am sure we will be happy to share with the Deputy. This report gives a summary of the total number of outbreaks and the total number of workers affected, which I think is now in excess of 1,000. Again, I can supply the Deputy with exact figures. The management of it was predominantly by a focus on our public health workforce, led by Dr. Mannix, who liaised with the owners of factories, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and directly with the workers themselves, employing, in many cases, translators of Portuguese and other languages. It was a considerable undertaking, with-----