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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry, I asked-----

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My question is about the agencies.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry to interrupt Ms Labo, but I asked how many agencies are involved.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is relevant to me because it is a question of interest to me. What I am interested in is whether there are agencies based in Ireland and the number of people they are hiring.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Labo for the additional information she has provided, but what I am trying to do is get a systematic review of the number of agencies, where they are based and their proliferation. I can imagine they have different recruitment and contractual practices. We need to be very careful such that saying something about one will not necessarily implicate others.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Do the witnesses' members communicate the names of the agencies? Is there a list of the agencies? We do not want to name people publicly because that is not what we do in these committees but do they have a list of the agencies?

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would greatly appreciate that. Mr. Ennis said that about 30% of his workers are working in the industry generally.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Ennis. That is all I wanted to know.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Labo for that.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is me. Deputy Durkan and I were to share time. We were to share ten minutes.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Many serious and heated comments are being made today, which I am sure is good for social media, but I might ask some follow-up questions to get more detail about what some of the witnesses have said. Mr. Sheahan stated that he did not believe that the protocol was the problem as such, but he did not get the opportunity to say what he thought the problem was in terms of managing the pandemic.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: May I surmise that Mr. Sheahan is saying that, while the protocol is important, it is the interaction between what is happening inside and outside those areas where the protocol is applicable - nursing homes, factories and so on - that is important?

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Excuse me, but I am stuck for time. I appreciate Mr. Sheahan answering my question. Dr. McGuinness was asked about hot bedding and shared transport. These are important concerns, but I wish to clarify the extent of the HSA's remit. What is and is not within its remit? We are all properly concerned about what is happening in the factories, but we must be just as concerned about what is...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is where the worker lives part of the HSA's remit?

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Has the HSA any relationship with, control over or conversation with the employer about the circumstances in which employees live? It is an important issue, but I am unsure as to whether the HSA is responsible for it. I just want to make that clear today.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSA cannot be responsible for where people live, what they do or anything else in the circumstances of community transmission. We have heard time and again from medical professionals that there is no fault in someone contracting the virus. If I contracted it, it would not necessarily be my fault. We are discussing a highly contagious virus that is in the community.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Earlier Dr. McGuinness talked about the 39 inspections. I think she said 30 of them had been unannounced. Dr. McGuinness also said, but did not have the opportunity to follow up on this, that she had provided short notice in respect of announced inspections. I want to ask Dr. McGuinness about announced inspections as well as the unannounced ones. Of course, we want to see unannounced...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is really important. In respect of the announced inspections, the HSA might contact the employer or the business the night before and turn up the following morning. That is the longest period of announcement. It is not announced three weeks before the inspection, where one can come in and do this, that and the other. The HSA is announcing it the night before for the following...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that.