Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The NSAI has guidelines on how companies should operate. They are available and companies should be adhering to them. There is no doubt about that. If there are issues and concerns, they should contact the Health and Safety Authority, HSA. We are developing a much more detailed set of guidelines to cover many more issues that are going to arise, and we will publish them as soon as we can. The NSAI guidelines are there currently for the manufacturing and processing plants that the Deputy refers to. I urge companies to get a copy of those and make sure they are complying with them because none of us wants to see people going into plants where they are not protected or safe because that is only adding to the spread of this virus. If they have worries, they should go to the HSA, which will visit any of those. The employees can call the HSA and explain they are not happy and it will come to see exactly what is happening. It is to everybody's benefit that they work together and put the right protections in place.

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