Harris Says Trades Like Plumbers and Electricians Can Work Out of Your Home Despite New Restrictions

COMMERCIALS, SUCH AS plumbers and electricians, can still visit a person’s home for work, despite new restrictions that no other home visits are allowed.

Higher Education Minister Simon Harris clarified the position in this regard in RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne this morning, saying that people should still take precautions if there are workers in their home.

He said, “I really want to put this on the bed because I’m getting a lot of questions about it too. So if you are a plumber or an electrician or a builder or a painter, you go to work.

“And if you’re doing the work and someone says you’re going to work at their house, yes, you can. And that was allowed in the past. “

From tonight through November 10, a nationwide restriction will be imposed on domestic visitors as part of the government’s latest attempts to address the worsening situation with Covid-19.

People are advised not to visit other homes indoors or in their gardens; exemptions will be made for compassionate and essential reasons such as childcare or childcare.

Harris said this morning that although merchants can enter the home to work during this period, people should take the proper precautions.

“So ventilation, try to leave windows or doors open, wear masks,” he said. “We also like to have a cup of tea or a cookie and chat … but that may not be the brightest thing to do right now.”

The former health minister said he was aware that people were exhausted and fed up with the restrictions, but said we now have a “very, small window” to try to “stop going back to the very, very restrictive situation we saw in March. and April “. ”.

He urged employers to show leadership and allow people to work from home whenever possible. He also described the new restrictions on home visits as a possible “game changer” to reverse the worrying trends being seen with the virus.

Harris said: “What we’re trying to do here is make sure that people can have a Christmas and make sure that we can try to get together somehow, somehow, with friends and family over Christmas. That is what we try to do. To do what we did in the first wave, get over it, suppress it, and bring the numbers back down.

“We really believe that if people take the advice now that we ask them, particularly in relation to home visiting and working from home, we think there is a possibility that that will change the rules of the game.”