Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed)

Photo of Michael McNamaraMichael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have heard all of that. I hope that everybody recognises the need to wash their hands and to avoid congregated settings and places that are busy. I am asking whether 39 visits to meat plants, when there has been cluster after cluster after cluster in this State and in many other states across the world, is proportionate, given there were 6,000 visits to licensed premises in one weekend and there have been no clusters in any of those. There have, of course, been ten outbreaks in licensed premises in the UK, all of which are open whereas ours are closed. I am asking whether that is proportionate.

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