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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of poultry flocks impacted by an outbreak of low pathogenic avian influenza in 2020 by county, that will benefit from the one-off financial support scheme announced by him in tabular form; the amount that will be provided in total and on average to each farmer; the basis on which the funds will be distributed; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Site Acquisitions (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is in discussions or the process of securing additional property for sale or lease in Dublin city at present; the details of such proposals or discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15718/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Information and Quality Authority (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 985. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HIQA inspectors that have received training in infection control per region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15705/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Information and Quality Authority (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 986. To ask the Minister for Health if it is mandatory for HIQA inspections of nursing homes to include infection inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15706/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Information and Quality Authority (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 988. To ask the Minister for Health the average time for which HIQA inspection teams remain on site during nursing home inspections; if there is a maximum time limit ascribed to inspection teams in these instances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15708/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 987. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures made by HIQA employees in each year since 2015 and to date 2020; the number of those staff that made protected disclosures that are working on a full-time basis with HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15707/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1257. To ask the Minister for Health if those women who donate breast milk for use by the health services are now required to undertake a blood test; if the cost of such blood tests are or will covered by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15702/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1258. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commission an examination into the potential for restoring accident and emergency services at Monaghan hospital in view of the pressures evident at Cavan and Drogheda, particularly with Covid-19 restrictions remaining in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15703/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1259. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to appointing a representative from the Mental Health Commission onto the National Public Health Emergency Team expert group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15704/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: The responses to my questions on the matter were not sufficient.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: I thank the witnesses for the work MRCI has been doing and for their presentations. We have received a report, which was compiled by Dr. Mannix and provided to NPHET, I understand, on 3 June. It states: "The Department are not currently aware of any plant where their staff have any significant concerns in relation to lack of compliance or inaction on the part of food business operators in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: How is it possible that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine was not aware of concerns regarding specific plants? This was on 3 June, at a time the media profile of this issue was at its highest. How would it be possible that someone could compile an official report for NPHET and state the Department was not aware of concerns regarding individual plants?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: The same report commends the meat industry on its adoption of procedures to protect workers, as does today's submission from Meat Industry Ireland, but the evidence of the witnesses and the submissions we have received from SIPTU and others report that some employers ignored completely the recommendations of the HSE. Who is lying to whom? How are we getting to a point where workers'...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: The report also states the decision of the HSE to convey test results to employers in meat plants was in line with legislation. It was a legal practice. To ask a broader question on the work of the MRCI, is Ms McGinley aware of any other industry where employers were informed of the test results regarding the health status of their employees before the workers themselves?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: Does Ms McGinley know offhand how many instances occurred? Can she get this information? As was mentioned earlier, we have asked the HSE but have not received a response on how many individual workers or individual plants were involved.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: It seems bizarre that we are relying on census information to try to get a sense of what proportion of the workforce in meat plants comes from migrant communities. Meat Industry Ireland refers to its migrant workforce as people from outside the EU. I am not sure whether any of them working here from Poland consider themselves to be domestic workers. Perhaps Ms McKeown might have information...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: In that regard, do the witnesses have a sense as to what proportion of management, from middle to upper level, is from a migrant background?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: I propose that the working group consider that we would send that correspondence to the CSO as a recommendation that it conduct that type of-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: Do the witnesses have any evidence, even anecdotal, to suggest what proportion of the workers they have encountered are members of trade unions?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: As for specific cases, are the witnesses aware of any instances in which workers went back to work having been tested but before the test results were conveyed to them?