Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion

Photo of Paul GavanPaul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but with respect - and I apologise for interrupting Dr. McGuinness but I am just very short on time - have we not just highlighted why there is a major problem with how this works, or indeed does not work, at the moment? What Dr. McGuinness is actually saying is that in a case in which one worker introduces Covid into a factory unknowingly and a further worker then gets it - and that, of course, is how clusters build - at the moment there is no obligation on the employer to report that to the Health and Safety Authority.

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