Ms Phil Ní Sheaghdha:

There are a number of questions that we a have sought answers to from the HSE and that is one of them. We know, for example, that the statistics produced weekly by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre - this only started in the past month because the INMO sought these figures - do not demarcate the numbers beyond the broad categories of "nurse", "healthcare assistant", "doctor", "porter", "other healthcare workers" and "unknown". As such, we have asked for information to allow us to determine where the areas of most risk are. We know now, for example, that 34% of all of the infections are among the nursing grades. We have asked for a breakdown between public and private and also figures on those who are fully equipped with PPE, such as Ms Murphy who worked on a ward with 19 others, all of whom were wearing PPE and 12 of whom contracted Covid-19.