Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin Tomás Ryan has said the situation with Covid-19 has gotten worse since Sunday and despite two weeks of Level 3 restrictions in Dublin, we still have "what looks like exponential growth".
Dr Ryan said that NPHET's call for Level 5 restrictions to be applied was justified and the Government should have put them in place on Monday.
He said that from the day the Government's Framework for Restrictive Measures was published there should have been contingency plans at every economic level that would allow the Government to act on a day's notice, subject to recommendations from National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).