Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister, Deputy Creed, tell us whether something more than guidelines on social distancing in workplaces was issued by the HSE and the Health and Safety Authority? It is factories today, but it could be some other type of enterprise tomorrow. Will the Minister tell us whether the inspectors now enforce a regime that means that people work at a social distance from one another where that is physically possible or otherwise take strong steps to reduce the risk of infection?

Do we know whether the main transmission of the infection was within the factories or outside them? Has an analysis been done as to whether it happened through social contact outside the factories or because of the way the employees were working within the factory premises? If it happened within the factory premises, we should review the workplace guidelines not only for meat factories but for all types of factories to ensure people are safe in their place of work.

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