Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said he hopes August will be the month when things are relatively normal again in Ireland. He said he hoped that by then, the vast majority of restrictions would be gone.
Mr Varadkar said he was hopeful that there would be indoor dining and people would be allowed indoors in pubs in July. But he said not everything may be the same and there would be questions about mass gatherings and indoor events and international travel.
Earlier, the French Ambassador to Ireland criticised the exemption mechanism for mandatory hotel quarantine here. Vincent Guérend said the exemptions were not adequate and a new mechanism, to allow for more exemptions, should be put in place.