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

Louise O'Reilly: I will conclude on this. We know that up to 600,000 people have deleted the COVID Tracker app from their phones. Are there any confidence-building measures in play that will encourage people to download the app again? I am sure the Minister is concerned about this figure. I would be very surprised if he were not. It is in the newspaper today. Up to 600,000 people have deleted the app...

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

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister must have an alternative explanation as to why people are deleting it from their phones. A loss of confidence would be the obvious reason to me. If there is another reason and the Minister knows it, he can share it. I have the app on my phone. I have done as much as anyone to promote it, but if people are deleting it, they are not doing so for any reason other than that they...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, we should.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not think anyone is trying to take that from them. As the Chairman knows, Sinn Féin's preference is for a meeting the week after. It is fair enough if that cannot be facilitated, but it is our preference.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not propose that the committee meet every week. If there are witnesses Deputies wish to call for a meeting, we should try to condense those meetings with the intention of dealing with them all in one week, if possible. Clearly, everyone is entitled to time off. I refer not only to ourselves but to the staff of the secretariat and so on. Perhaps we could condense all meetings into a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: It might be too late.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I am taking-----

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

Louise O'Reilly: I have no objection if Deputy Lawless wants to take his time now. He seems very agitated.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Go ahead.

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.