Coronavirus: Claims of 40 meat workers in Offaly living in shared accommodation

A Covid-19 testing facility in Tullamore, Co Offaly, where nine people have tested positive for the virus in the Carroll Cuisinea meat factory. PA Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Siptu Divisional Organiser for the Manufacturing Industry Greg Ennis will appear before the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 tomorrow as the recalled committee discusses the outbreaks in meat factories which have seen three counties returned to lockdown.

In Mr Ennis's opening statement, he outlines how the union has been warning since March that meat plants contain "unrivalled vectors for the transmission of Covid-19".