Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentations and the work they are doing. I will refer to the report of the profile of Covid-19 cases in healthcare workers in Ireland. On looking at the report, I note that 58.5% of the 88,260 healthcare workers who were identified as positive for Covid were in the HSE east region. While there is a larger number of healthcare workers in that area, in analysing comparable figures was a higher percentage of healthcare workers in the east affected in overall terms, taking into account the total number of healthcare workers in the area? Has any effort been made to identify why that occurred?