Dr. Sharon McGuinness:

To be clear, Covid-19 is a notifiable disease in the Infectious Diseases Regulations, which are obviously Department of Health legislation. That is where we get our weekly reports from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. What Deputy O'Reilly is talking about, and what this Bill refers to, is occupational illness being reported directed to the authority, that is, under our occupational health and safety legislation. It is not currently there other than under the biological agents regulations for specific work with the virus.