Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 10 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Meat Plants
Ms Bríd McKeown:
It is hard for us to say because we speak mostly with migrant workers. We have spoken to a few Irish workers but our data poll is over-representative of migrant workers. Going back to my earlier point, even though 58% of the workforce is from a migrant background, those people are over-represented on factory floors and that is where the greatest level of exposure to Covid took place. I am led to believe that people from a migrant background are in the majority in contracting Covid-19 but we do not have data to say that.
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