Mr. Philip Carroll:

I will not comment on how it is treated. We have no magic wand around any of this. At the beginning, the meat industry was one of those sectors designated by Government to continue to operate and that is what it has done over that period of time. Where we have had problems, we have dealt with those problems with great alacrity. We had no cases for a period of two months, and in the recent case, it had no cases for five months.

We have heard here repeatedly that the problem of compliance does not exist - in other words, everybody is completely compliant with the terms of the engagement with the HSE as regards the protocols. We have particularly heard of the difficulty around the elimination of the virus. All the protocols can do is mitigate the virus but they will not completely clear or eliminate it from any part of society.