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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Deductions for accommodation are unusual in most sectors.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Ryan. I wish to give the floor to Deputy Mairéad Farrell, who has been more than patient.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I also look forward to receiving the information requested by Deputy O'Donoghue and I thank the witnesses for agreeing to provide it. Earlier, Mr. Ryan correctly pointed out that after a year, workers on a work permit can move to another area of employment. Does he accept that where they can move is very circumscribed? It has to be an area where there is a skills shortage, the employees...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: If they can wait four months.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: There are. Migrant Rights Centre Ireland would dispute that the €1,000 is paid by the employer in all circumstances. The evidence of its representatives earlier today was the opposite of that. Have Meat Industry Ireland's members availed of the temporary wage subsidy scheme since it is introduction? If so, do the witnesses have any idea of the number of employees employed under...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Mr. Healy talked about a 30% reduction in some instances. What proportion of the workforce in the meat plants would he say were employed under the temporary wage subsidy scheme?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Perhaps it is a figure on which Mr. Healy could consult with his members and which he could provide to the committee, again within ten working days or, if that is an unreasonable period, perhaps even 20. We are heading into the summer recess. Very little happens in this House during August, unlike perhaps in the business community. Perhaps Mr. Healy could get the figure?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I have to put it to Mr. Healy that notwithstanding that-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Kill figures published by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in any given week this year were no lower than 5% lower than the same time last year.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: These are the kill figures produced by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. In week 23 the figure was 72,000 this year as opposed to 76,000 last year. The following week it was 76,000 this year as opposed to 80,000 last year. In another week it was 79,000 this year as opposed to 83,000 last year. The fall-off in kill is relatively low compared with last year. I accept a...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: They are from the website of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Yes, the kill figures.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I may have misread them, but they are the figures I was looking at. I may have been looking at a cumulative figure but I do not think the drop-off was as dramatic as one might have expected. There was a beef intervention scheme ongoing as well. Was that used by the Irish sector?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: No, I can give them to Mr. Healy. The cumulative beef kill, including the week commencing 29 June 2020, is 906,174 and last year's figure, including the week commencing 1 July 2019, is 939,100. That is a reduction but it is a 5% reduction.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: They have already been accounted for. Anyway, we can park that. Deputies O'Donoghue and Shanahan both have brief questions to ask.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Of the cases, the Deputy wants to know how many were Irish, how many were EU nationals and how many were third country nationals.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: The Deputy refers to the temporary wage subsidy scheme.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Are the representatives of Meat Industry Ireland in a position to provide that? They have already agreed kindly to provide the information with regard to the unfortunate people who contracted Covid-19, whether they were of Irish nationality, non-Irish but EU nationality, or third country nationality. Is it possible to receive a breakdown from its members on whether the wage subsidy scheme...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I am, if Mr. Carroll wishes to answer that.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I appreciate that.