Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants

Mr. Michael Sheahan:

No issues have been fed back to us regarding lack of compliance with protocols, which is not the problem with this virus in my opinion and in what we have seen so far with feedback. The protocol for meat plants, produced by the national outbreak control team, is an excellent protocol but it is a series of risk mitigation measures. It is not a risk elimination measure. There is no such thing as a set of protocols that will completely eliminate the risk of a virus that is in the community getting into schools, call centres, fast food restaurants or whatever the setting is. The best one can do is to have a good set of protocols that will mitigate that risk. We have such a protocol. No protocol, however, will prevent-----

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