Covid-19 Pandemic
Dail Éireann — 2020-07-14
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Louise O'Reilly (SF), Dublin Fingal

This is a fairly simple straightforward request and the Tánaiste can just say "Yes" and we will not need a back and forth. It is simply to ensure that where a worker contracts an illness in the workplace, that illness being Covid-19, that it is notifiable to the Health and Safety Authority, which can examine the case to determine how the person got it. I am a member of the Covid-19 response committee and I have heard from people representing workers in high-risk sectors, such as meat plants, and healthcare workers among whom infection rates are very high. It beggars belief that this is not notifiable in the normal way that an illness acquired in the workplace is to the HSA.

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Sitting date: 2020-07-14