Minister Michael McGrath warns that level 5 lockdown exit plan ‘will not please everyone’

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The Minister of PUBLIC Expenditure, Michael McGrath, warned that the government’s plan to get out of the blockade “will not please everyone.”

Minister McGrath was part of the Covid-19 cabinet subcommittee that met with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tony Holohan tonight to discuss Ireland’s reopening next week.

Reform and Public Expenditure Minister Michael McGrath says Covid's decisive meeting with NPHET was 'complete and thorough'

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Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Michael McGrath says Covid’s decisive meeting with NPHET was ‘complete and exhaustive’Credit: PA: Press Association
Ireland will come out of level 5 next week

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Ireland will come out of level 5 next week Credit: PA: Press Association

Minister Fianna Fail said the briefing was a “thorough and comprehensive discussion” that included presentations from HSE chief Paul Reid and NPHET modeling expert Professor Philip Nolan.

Minister McGrath said the government’s plan, to be released tomorrow, “will strike the right balance” between public health advice and reopening the economy.

Speaking on RTE primetime, he said, “Of course, we engaged in a very constructive way with NPHET. They are the public health experts.

“But the Government also has the right, and in my opinion a duty, to take into account all other factors, including people’s livelihoods, and we are well aware that December is a really important month for many reasons. the economy, for so many companies, for families and for society.

“So we have to try to find the right balance. We won’t please everyone tomorrow. Christmas means nothing to the virus. We will take advantage of all the opportunities that we give him ”.

‘€ 300 MILLION A WEEK’

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Minister McGrath made a presentation to the cabinet subcommittee on the negative impact the pandemic is having on Ireland’s economy.

More than 100,000 people lost their jobs when Ireland entered the level five lockdown with government support schemes for workers and businesses that currently cost the state 300 million euros a week.

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Minister McGrath did not reveal whether the hospitality sector will be able to reopen next month, but he did confirm that people will be allowed to gather over Christmas.

He said: “We are also aware that people will want to get together over the Christmas period and that can be done, but it will have to be done safely and it will have to be done differently.

“Ultimately, people will make their own individual decisions based on available information and knowledge of the risks.”



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