Mr. Philip Carroll:

Everybody has said right across the board, and I am talking about the experts, that Covid-19 is an insidious and indiscriminate virus. It does not discriminate between people who are on modest levels of pay and people who are on high levels of pay. It does not discriminate across nationalities or across borders. To suggest, for example, that there are issues around health and safety in plants when health and safety is inspected in the normal course, without announcement in advance, by a State authority needs to be refuted because it is simply not the case.