Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants
Ms Patricia King:
There is no delineation. There was an agreement when we did the national protocol on a safe return to work that a Covid-19 mandate of inspection would be given to inspectors from the Workplace Relations Commission and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, health inspectors and the Health and Safety Authority. I understand more than 500 people are within that remit. That was a substantive increase in the number of those available to inspect and so on. Unfortunately, we ask many questions about the numbers of inspections and so on and we do not get a lot of detailed answers.
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