Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 10 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Meat Plants
Ms Edel McGinley:
I wish I knew the answer to that. It is astonishing that that is in the report, given the existence of clusters at a very basic level and given all the work we are doing with workers and what we hear from workers. We can see from the statistics that five weeks later proper protections were not in place. My understanding is that representatives from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine are present in meat factories so one would assume some information should be passed on, although it has not been. Unfortunately, I do not have an answer for that.
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