HSE: Home help workers not being routinely tested for Covid-19

Labour Party leader Alan Kelly slammed the situation as "disgraceful". Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Home help workers are not being routinely tested for Covid-19, a situation the Labour leader has called "disgraceful".

Alan Kelly had asked health minister Stephen Donnelly if the staff were being routinely tested as they go into other people's homes and may have to work in close proximity.