Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Mark Cullen:

It is extremely short. With the announced ones, it could be that we served a notice and wanted to go back to see compliance with that notice. We could give some short notice again that we are coming there to look at that and we want the right people there. When we do our inspections, we want the top senior management there to listen to what we are saying and the direction, so we might make some contact in that regard. With the meat plants, we would not announce our inspections. There was a time during Covid when it was necessary to do so in view of the fact that there could be an outbreak of the virus in a workplace.