Covid-19 (Health): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-05-27
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Simon Harris (FG), Wicklow

The 200 environmental health officers, or inspectors, will all carry out on-the-ground inspection activities. They will do so as part of their usual programmed inspections. Environmental health officers already do that and we are basically saying that they already have a remit for a significant number of businesses, with 45,000 food businesses in the country, and telling them to inspect sites under the Return to Work Safely Protocol.

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Sitting date: 2020-05-27