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Revised Living with Covid-19 Plan
Paul Cunningham, Political Correspondent on last night s cabinet sub-committee meeting which met to finalise the Government s plan for living with Covid-19.
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Business anxieties ahead of new Covid-19 plan
Fiachra Ó Cionnaith speaks with people working in sectors that have been hit by restrictions and asks them what they are hoping to hear in today s plan.
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Can children safely return to school?
Dr. Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine Physician at St. James s Hospital in Dublin, discusses the issues that the government will need to factot into its latest Living With Covid plan.
Updated / Thursday, 31 Dec 2020
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Norma Foley said the move was an attempt to control movement in the wider community (File pic)
The Minister for Education has said it is the Government s firm intention to reopen schools on 11 January.
Norma Foley told RTÉ s News at One programme that giving schools an extra two or three days holidays affords families and society an opportunity to ensure their contacts are minimised before children go back to school.
Ms Foley said that delaying the reopening was not recommended by the National Public Health Emergency Team.
She said the move was an attempt to control movement in the wider community and that it is about encouraging society to take on board the new restrictions and associated behaviours.