Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Joe Hackett:

We asked everyone who was involved in that photograph how long it took. When I say one minute, it is the breach of social distancing guidance that occurred from the time that people came together to the time that they dispersed again out of that photograph. Some had that figure at much less than one minute and some had it at slightly more. It seemed reasonable to us that if we think of our own daily lives, in how long it takes to take a picture, that was the nature of the breach and that is the figure we agreed on. There was a great deal of consensus among those interviewed that this was the time limit.