Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 24 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: Impact on International Travel
Mr. Neil McGowan:
I do not have an exact figure. When we have asked the question of employers they have given the figures to us on a section-by-section basis in the airport. In the airport search unit it is less than 1% of the 800 people employed in that section. In the fire station in Dublin Airport there were certainly more than ten confirmed cases. At one point, more than 30 people were out, either with a diagnosis of Covid-19, or having been advised to self-isolate as a result of being a close contact. Unfortunately, some of our firefighter members in Dublin became seriously ill. They are, thankfully, on the road to recovery. That is the only example of a cluster. The other confirmed cases were spread across the various sections in the airport and have been in single figures, even in the larger areas.
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