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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I have no objection to that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Thank you, Chairman. I will stick on my timer.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, it is for ten minutes. I thank the witnesses for attending. I thank them for the work they and their members are doing in what some would describe as challenging circumstances and I would describe as disgraceful circumstances. They are no less worthy of applause than other front-line workers. On the point raised by Ms King on making Covid-19 a notifiable disease, I welcome the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: When Mr. Ennis says workers were allowed back into the workplace, that sounds like a place they were dying to get back into. Can Mr. Ennis explain what happens in such a case? Are the workers afforded an opportunity not to go back into the workplace or is it the case that they have to go back?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it the case that we are nowhere near a turnaround time of 24 hours?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: The good news is that we have had expressions of support from at least one party in the Government on that. Here is hoping that it gets done. As some will know, my father used to organise workers in the meat factories in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is shocking that those conditions do not appear to have improved and in fact, if anything, have gone the other way. I am struck by the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry to interrupt Ms Labo, my apologies. I ask specifically about language specific information that is made available to people relating to Covid-19 and the precautions.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: We know it is a diverse workforce but the available information is not available in a diverse range of languages. We can hear that. Would Mr. Ennis and Ms King like to comment on the remarkably high levels of asymptomatic cases considering we have a 10% infection rate among meat and food processing workers and yet we appear miraculously to have some of the highest asymptomatic...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Should the people running those companies be compelled to close? I note that the Minister for Health over the weekend, fairly unhelpfully, offered a personal opinion on the closures but that is all it was. Is Ms King saying that we should have the capacity to shut individual plants quickly, test and get the workers back to work quickly? That is not happening at the moment.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms King and will conclude on this point, which was mentioned to me last night when I was out canvassing. I met a lady who threw her eyes up to heaven and asked if there was anything to be said for another beef tribunal. We will see.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: It might be worth it.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome our guests. I join with others in commending the work that the men and women from every grade, group and category in the HSE and the broader health service have been doing over the past number of months and continue to do now. My questions are, as ever, fairly simple. I ask Mr. Reid to outline how the HSE and the contact tracing personnel communicate with the Border Management...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I ask Ms O'Beirne to be brief as time is tight.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Beyond that, there would not be any dialogue between the HSE and the Border Management Unit? In other words, the unit does not keep the HSE informed of numbers or let it know how many people have been followed up, if any.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Would the HSE not think of asking for that information? Is it not important?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: With regard to contact tracing, how many people are full-time employed in that regard? I am seeking not just any number but the whole-time equivalent, WTE, as of today. How many people are working on it today?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms O'Beirne. How many people are currently in Citywest?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: There are 60 healthcare workers in the field hospital.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: There are 130 people on trolleys today. Could none of those be accommodated in Citywest?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: That is regrettable. The last time representatives of workers in the meat processing industry were before the committee, they informed us that there was a delay in receiving test results of up to four days. In the intervening time, a person who was tested went back to work and the line that person was working on subsequently became infected. I note the figures relating to the median but we...