Ms Dee Forbes:

It was a farewell to a much-loved colleague. Having said that, I apologised at the time it happened. We reflected on what happened and carried out an internal health and safety review. It is fair to say the incident was not at all reflective of how we conducted ourselves during the pandemic. I agree that it should not have happened but we learned from it and moved on. That is important. We also co-operated fully with the Garda investigation at the time.