The meat factories' representative body has been accused of 'stonewalling' questions on the Covid-19 outbreaks in meat plants around the country. Meat Industry Ireland (MII), which represents meat factories, told an Oireachtas Commitee yesterday that there has been approximately 1,100 positive cases in meat factories, since one of its members first reported a positive Covid case on March 17. Carroll said meat factories had implemented a comprehensive set of measures to deal with Covid-19, but admitted that there have been “too many” positive cases associated with meat plants. Five meat factories had over 100 positive cases among its workers by June 1, according to HSE figures. "Some of them have sick pay scheme and some of them don’t,” Cormac Healy, Senior Director MII, told the committee.

Source: Irish Independent July 10, 2020 17:26 UTC