Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank all the witnesses. It has been a really useful discussion. I will take up from where the previous conversation finished, that is, with the issue of why the regulations changed in 2016. I think members of the general public will be genuinely quite shocked to hear that right now there is no obligation on employers to notify the HSA of Covid-19 cases. I wish to drill down into this. I will direct my first question to Dr. McGuinness. I thank her for her presentation and her patience this morning. She said that the issue with changing the regulations was the low number of accidents reported. That was the HSA's understanding at the time. The upshot of that issue was that the HSA decided to exclude disease from the definition of workplace accidents. How was that supposed to improve the reporting of accidents?