Mr. Philip Carroll:

Contact tracing was one of the elements progressed early and rapidly within meat plants.

In every meat plant, having people on site who had tested positive for coronavirus was a substantial risk of the further spread of the virus within plants. Contact tracing was a fundamental part of the response by companies. For every single positive case that was identified in a meat plant, those associated with the individual were traced by members of staff in the plant and all of that information was comprehensively communicated to the HSE. It is interesting to note that, when some issues arose over data five or six weeks ago, the HSE was quick to point out that the level of contact tracing provided by factories was almost 100%.