Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 10 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed)
Mr. Cormac Healy:
The Deputy is right. The verification process has been touched on and there has been ongoing verification both from the Department and the HSA around the measures in place. Work is also going on in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, which sits on the national outbreak control team, to retrospectively look at some of the factors and get a greater understanding as to why things happened.
Many commentators have expressed fears about second surges in countries. If there is anything that can help with regard to a second surge, particularly as the economy opens up and restrictions are lifted, that work is being done with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and-----
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