Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2020-09-15
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

-----that the virus is throughout Dublin city and county. There is no getting away from that.
The specific criteria are in the plan. There are seven or eight criteria that NPHET will use to make a decision in respect of a particular county or nationally.
There are further descriptors of what those might be in terms of numbers per 100,000, the R number, the transmission of the virus in a given county and a variety of other criteria which NPHET will decide upon and advise on. The plan is very clear and there is flexibility and discretion built into it. Moving from different levels is very serious. The Deputy can go on about the particular issue around the wet pubs in Dublin as somehow constituting something huge in terms of the plan-----

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Sitting date: 2020-09-15