The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation has said it's "a little premature" to discuss reducing social distancing from two metres to one metre.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Heather Humphreys said the public health advice from the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) has "served us well" so far, and the two metre rule is "the norm" across Europe. "We're only a week into the gradual easing of restrictions.
It'll be early next week before we start to see the data on whether the lifting of restrictions in Phase One has had an impact on the number of new cases. "Until we receive that data, it's a little premature to start talking about moving away from two metres." Ms Humphreys said that if the trend "continues to be