'They are right to ask questions': Harris praises health service unions during virus outbreak

The position taken by the trade unions was a technical detail and there was no evidence of any unions using the virus to gain the upper hand, the Minister told Newstalk Breakfast.

Minister for Health Simon Harris has described the reaction of health service trade unions to the coronavirus as “amazing.”

Reports that trade unions had told the HSE they will not accept a ban on industrial action or unilateral decisions to outsource services as proposed in a plan by health managers last Friday for dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, were unfair, he said.