Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants

Dr. Sharon McGuinness:

The HSA has a responsibility in all workplaces. That includes public sector and private companies and enterprises also. The ability to inspect all of them at any one time would be challenging, which is why there has been a cross-Government approach to checking Covid-19 using these other inspection bodies. We are working very closely with public health colleagues, as I said, through the national outbreak control team, this national committee and local outbreak control teams to focus and address them. We will continue to have a programme of unannounced inspections in the sector.

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