Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive

Ms Niamh O'Beirne:

I will take the first part of that question and clarify an earlier point. We go into 85 plants every week to do serial testing where we have very strong support from the employers and staff to show up for monthly PCR testing. We go to meat plants with more than 50 staff. That has been going on now for a number of months and we have not amended that programme as of yet. It tends to be enhanced by additional antigen testing going on a number of times per week and those supplies of antigen testing have been handed to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for onward dissemination.

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