Full COVID-19 Impact Is Yet To Hit.

It has been recognised that outsourcing key functions to an agile specialist service partner can derive significant benefits and the COVID-19 pandemic should help simplify and accelerate this trend.

The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government has signed a new regulation (S.I. 92/2020) which means that from 27 March 2020 until the end of the "planning emergency"

Partner and head of our Employment team in Ireland, Karen Killalea spoke to Fiachra O Cionnaith for an RTE Morning Ireland special report on the vaccination status of employees as they return to the workplace.

Initial guidance – described in our post here – recommended that ex gratia payments to contractors would not continue beyond early March 2021.

In a welcome development for Irish companies, the "interim period" under the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Act 2020 (the "Act") has been extended until 9 June 2021.

It is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is set to have a significant personal and economic impact on us all.

As global communities and economies continue to deal with the multitude of COVID-19 related issues, the Irish government's response to the economic impact continued with the introduction of further new measures to support businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19.

The Irish Government's COVID-19 Specific National Protocol for Employers and Workers (the "Protocol") was published on Friday, 8 May.

On 2 April 2020, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") launched a COVID-19 hub.

The Burgh Quay Registration Office is closing again due to new COVID-19 restrictions

The issues emerging from COVID-19 are many and varied, and are impacting our communities and industry sectors in a number of different ways.

The 2021 commercial rates waiver will be applied in the first quarter of 2021 to businesses most seriously affected by restrictions.

The obligations on a supplier will depend on the precise wording of the relevant contract.

On Sept. 25, 2021, the Ministry of Health removed all remaining countries from the list of countries subject to the Mandatory Hotel Quarantine (MHQ).

By November, Ireland will have been in the grips of a pandemic for over 9 months.

The Irish Government's COVID-19 Specific National Protocol for Employers and Workers was published on Friday, 8 May.

Many of the supply chain issues have that have been seen in other jurisdictions have also affected Ireland.

One of the Covid-specific regulations introduced by the Irish government last year was that, for a specific period, change of use from the sale of food for consumption on the premises

Repackaging programme issuances have gained momentum this year, despite the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic elsewhere in structured markets.