Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed)

Mr. Eddie Wilson:

With regard to Spain, what is happening in Catalonia will happen in other countries and has happened previously. It now has an issue with care homes and there was a report in the Financial Times the other day about undocumented workers coming to the area. The virus is also present in meat plants in the area. We will have a spike like that here. The Minister for Health himself, who I believe is on this committee, said last week that nine out of ten cases are not attributed to international travel. International travel is not a bogeyman and we really have to look at ourselves and ask what we are doing differently and what risks we are taking with regard to long-term structural damage.