The Minister for Finance has said Government measures on mandatory quarantine are significant and dismissed criticism that they do not go far enough. "We are bringing in a form of mandatory quarantining into a country that values openness so much as a society and as an economy," he told Morning Ireland.
However, he said that the country is making steady progress in containing Covid-19 and this progress must be maintained. Minister Donohoe said he believes the spread of the disease will continue to fall throughout February but that the healthcare system will remain under pressure. "These measures are necessary but the Government will always keep them under review to see if they need to be amended or indeed strengthened in a future context,"