Martin warns 20 July reopening of pubs could be delayed

Micheál Martin said the Government is worried about scenes in Dublin over the weekend where social distancing and, in some cases, opening hours were not being complied with.

However, he said, given international volatility countries that would have made a safe list two weeks ago would not make it today. He also said that there is a backlog in dealing with non-Covid 19 cases in the hospital system and capacity has to be kept free to deal with these. Mr Martin said he did not know and was not aware of the Minister for Agriculture's drink driving conviction and that Barry Cowen had not made him aware of it at the time.

Asked if he found it strange that Mr Cowen at the age of 49 and a member of the front bench, was driving on a provisional licence he replied: "Certainly one would have thought a full licence would have been secured earlier, but I don't know the background to that and quite a number of people in Ireland drove historically on provisional licences for quite a considerable length of time.

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