Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 10 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed)
Mr. Philip Carroll:
We are very satisfied that is the case. I want to put on the record before we finish that we are grateful for the engagement of all the State agencies. I refer to the HSE, in particular, regarding the establishment of the national outbreak control group. That was an important development and it was of great assistance to the companies, particularly those that had larger-scale outbreaks.
We will continue to work with those groups. Can anybody be certain in any walk of life, however, of being completely on top of any further outbreak that might occur? I do not think so. As far as we are concerned, though, we are far more confident in our capability, the resources available to us now and in all the measures we have taken. We now have a better understanding of the problems we face and we are much strengthened in the artillery we have available to us in defending the position we want to defend - that of having zero cases in future.
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