Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

HSE Winter Plan: HSE

Mr. Paul Reid:

I will ask my colleagues to respond on specific numbers but I will make some general points. First, to restate what the Deputy said, our healthcare workers have played a phenomenal role in Ireland's response, and they continue to do so, and we are forever grateful to them. We want to give them the fullest protections we can. On the measurement of comparative infection rates of the Irish workforce, we want to move beyond that and see what factors were driving that in the early stages. Thankfully, the percentage of healthcare workers infected has gone down significantly. We want to move beyond that. As I said before, we count the whole healthcare workforce whereas many European countries count only doctors and nurses.

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