Last week it was the meat industry’s turn to face questioning in front of an Oireachtas committee on the Covid response in plants. There has been significant Covid outbreaks in meat plants, with five factories each having over 100 positive cases, although there are no current cases. However, it’s unclear why some plants had significantly lower rates of Covid cases. We did learn that around 70pc of workers in the country’s meat plants are not Irish, and that only some have access to sick pay. After the last Beef Taskforce meeting, some farming organisations called for the actual factory owners, not just MII, to be present.

Source: Irish Independent July 13, 2020 15:45 UTC