Ireland is now at Level 5, the highest level of the
Government's Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living
with COVID-19.
Once again, retailers across the country are getting to grips
with the latest emergency measures to curtail the spread of
COVID-19 and the kind of trading that is and is not permitted under
Level 5.
New
Regulations have been introduced making it an offence for
people to leave their homes without reasonable excuse. The
Regulations set out a non-exhaustive list of what might be a
"reasonable excuse", and this list includes:
- leaving your home to go to an essential retail outlet for the
purpose of obtaining items or accessing services for yourself,
someone else who lives with you or for a vulnerable person;
and
