The chief executive of the employers' group Ibec has written to the Government to outline what the organisation sees as the key priorities for the reopening of the economy.
In the letter sent to the Taoiseach and other ministers, Danny McCoy said Ibec thinks the priorities strike the correct balance between the ongoing public health risks and the need to address the escalating economic crisis along with other societal issues. "It is clear that the understanding, and indeed credibility, of the Five Levels set out in the Covid Framework need to be reset to reflect the situation of summer 2021, not the conditions encountered last summer when originally devised," he wrote. "Keeping businesses in Level 5, when circumstances have considerably