Mr. Michael Sheahan:

I thank the Deputy. The question she is asking is about so-called TVIs, temporary veterinary inspectors. They are vets who are in practice but who do shift work for a couple of hours doing meat inspection in meat factories. The situation is that in the early stages of the so-called lockdown we took the decision that anybody over 70 should not be rostered to do work in our meat plants but as time went on that decision was challenged both legally and by the representative organisation for veterinary inspectors, Veterinary Ireland, on the basis that it was unfair and potentially not legal. About a month or six weeks ago, we had a number of discussions with Veterinary Ireland, our own legal services and other bodies also and the legal advice was that it was not correct for us to continue to exclude those aged over 70-----