Ms Edel McGinley:

I do not want to call anybody a liar but incomplete information may have been provided to the HSA for it to make an assessment of it. We can only rely on the figures that have come out on the outbreaks of Covid. These in and of themselves tell their own story. The right questions were probably not asked and perhaps the right inspections were not carried out. There was not communication between Departments, which we know is always a problem with regard to interdepartmental responsibility where there are different responsibilities for different aspects of the industry.