Meat Industry Ireland will defend meat processing plants' fight against the coronavirus when it appears before the Special Oireachtas Committee on Covid-19 today.
The organisation will say that the recent outbreak has resulted in a rush to "blame and complain" that nothing has been done to prevent the spread of the virus in an industrial setting.
It will say that in the Kildare Chilling case, this company survived the high points of late April and early May, recording no virus cases when other clusters formed.
It will tell members that when it last attended the committee, there had been around 22 clusters at primary processing plants which are no longer active clusters and most of the staff affected have now returned to work.