Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Would Dr. McGuinness like to comment on the fact that European countries have seen fit to regard Covid-19 as an occupational illness? They seem to have had no difficulty doing so. Dr. McGuinness may have seen the addendum to the ICTU presentation, which showed the European Union of Medical Specialists making reference to the need to make Covid an occupational illness. What is the particular difficulty Ireland has that we cannot adopt best practice being adopted across the rest of Europe, given the context of a pandemic and the more than 4,000 lives we have lost?