Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is something that I would have imagined to be the case as well What Ms. McGinley said about Ireland being a low-pay economy highlights the impact of low wages on people's lives. A significant element of the Government's response to Covid-19 was based on personal responsibility but having read the centre's opening statement, the reality is that if a person is in a low income job it is taken out of their control in a number of ways. Housing is likely to be cramped, work conditions are precarious and dire, and a person's ability to stay away from the workplace is limited. If this work was more well paid, would that have limited the rate of infection given workers' own personal housing situations and so on?