Covid-19 (Health): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-05-07
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

Following up on Deputy Bríd Smith's question about workplaces, the Minister has obviously seen the clusters. We have been contacted by many workers in many different workplaces who have had difficulty getting anyone to inspect their workplaces. This is now becoming a very central issue in the context of a phased ending of the lockdown, a return to work and so on. Does the Minister agree that workplaces cannot open up until a risk assessment has taken place involving safety representatives from among the workers, with trade unions having access and workers being confident that it is safe for them to go to work without them being placed in danger of contracting the coronavirus due to insufficient social distancing and so on?

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Sitting date: 2020-05-07