Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to pick up on a point made by Senator Gavan regarding the administrative burden. I am not in any way convinced that this will place a massive administrative burden on employers. I am a small bit concerned that perhaps the HSA would come in and say this on the basis that employers can answer for themselves. Indeed, they have made a submission.

In terms of the practicalities of the administrative burden, there is already an online system. Reporting a Covid case would feed into the same system. When one thinks about what is considered an administrative burden, one probably thinks about people drowning in loads of paperwork. In fact, it seems that the HSA has gone to considerable effort to streamline this process, and fair play to it for that. Presumably if the amendment was passed, it would mean that another illness would be added to an existing process. Am I correct in thinking that?