Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 10 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed)
Mr. Cormac Healy:
We had communications from SIPTU and we responded to that and indicated that labour and employment issues are primarily dealt with by individual members, but we remained open to discussing it. The priority though was the engagement at local level on the one hand, and there was engagement with each company and its staff and union representatives where that was appropriate. The priority was also engagement with the authorities at local level, which was with the HSE, and at national level once the national outbreak control team was formed. That is where our principal contact was throughout this episode.
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