Minister for Health Simon Harris has said any measures being taken to lift restrictions here in early May would have to be "low risk" from a public health point of view but "high return" from a societal or economic point of view.
The minister was speaking after the weekly medical leaders' forum, where representatives of the medical community engage with the minister and the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, via video link.
The minister said there had been a drop in the number of hospitalisations and the number of admissions to ICU, and added that while the virus was being suppressed, it "could still go wrong for this country".