Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 10 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed)

Mr. Cormac Healy:

I have heard the issue around Panadol and so on mentioned in the media. The main point is that it is not in a plant's interest for anybody to come in who has symptoms or is feeling sick. The main mitigating measure is to keep this virus outside the workplace. We have seen clearly in some situations that it can spread if it does get in. The main aim is to keep it out and therefore it is in no employer or management's interest to have anybody coming into work who is in any way feeling symptoms. That has to be the way we move forward on this. Keeping it out of any plant is first and foremost the prime measure of controlling the spread of this disease.

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