Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is regrettable. The last time representatives of workers in the meat processing industry were before the committee, they informed us that there was a delay in receiving test results of up to four days. In the intervening time, a person who was tested went back to work and the line that person was working on subsequently became infected. I note the figures relating to the median but we also know they are skewed by the healthcare workers who have a very tight and fast turnaround time.

When we spoke to representatives of workers in the meat and food processing industry, I was struck by the lack of information available to workers in their own language. We know this is a migrant workforce. Is that information now available or was it always available and somehow magically never made it to the floor of the factories? If that information is available, in what languages is it available? How does it get into the hands of the workers who need it? A person who was tested went back to work, which is obviously not the advice. I am trying to ascertain how that happened.