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A new medium-term government plan to deal with Covid-19 will be presented on September 14, Transport Minister Eamon Ryan told Dáil.
The Green Party leader said the plan will be “as important, if not more important, than the Budget” and would allow people to return to some kind of normalcy in the coming months.
The plan is expected to contain a relaxation of restrictions on international travel, and Ryan said it would contain “a planned approach that enables connectivity.”
He said the government was looking at the experience of other countries and could allow Ireland to “waive the 14-day travel restriction requirement” when someone enters the state.
Ryan said the plan “will restore livelihoods and protect lives.”
“The Government has to begin now to prepare for the next six, nine, 18 months, a medium-term approach, where in the absence of a vaccine we have to administer it and in that we have to manage international travel.” he said.
Ryan was responding to the joint leader of the Social Democrats Róisín Shortall, who accused the government of “not doing its part” as the public was giving up much of “normal life” and the business community was “paying a huge price” due to the pandemic.
He said an effective testing and tracing system for proper controls at airports and ports could not be guaranteed and that the government’s response had been “totally inadequate.”
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