Organisations who work with older people and those who live alone have called for greater clarity around what circumstances people are allowed to bring other people into their homes.
Under current restrictions people are being asked to have no visitors to their home or garden, except for essential purposes.
It cites, for example, providing care to children, elderly or vulnerable people, and in particular those who live alone. But organisations say it is not completely clear what this means in practice and at all levels of restrictions.
Among those affected is Tom McArdle, who lives alone in Dublin. He said what he found hardest back in March when restrictions were at their height was not being able to have his children and grandchildren