The Sinn Féin Leader, Mary Lou McDonald, said there were lessons to be learnt from the pandemic for the health service and the housing crisis.
She told RTÉ's Six One News that while today was a "very good" day, life was not returning to normal. Ms McDonald said it is important that there was not a cliff edge end to Government supports and this needed to kept under constant review.
She urged the Government not to dispense with testing, tracing and the ability to respond to outbreaks of the virus or a new variant.
She said it was very important that Covid-19 infrastructure was still "live" so the necessary support was available in the health system.