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30th June 2021
08:14am BST

The government's announcement as backed by NPHET has been highly criticised among restaurant owners and vintners alike.
CEO of the Restaurants Association of Ireland Adrian Cummins said yesterday that the proposed rules "make no sense."
“Restaurant, Pub and Café Owners will now be placed in the unenviable, complex and difficult position of allowing vaccinated customers enter indoors and restricting non vaccinated customers to outdoor dining," he said.
"Such a practice of refusing access to goods and services in currently illegal under equality acts. The hospitality sector contains a diverse range of workers by age with front of house mostly the unvaccinated age groups, who will now be asked to refuse access to their peers?
"This makes no sense and will restrict indoor dining to those in the 40 – 60 age groups who are fully vaccinated whilst the hotel across the street has families and guests dining indoors since 2nd June."
Indoor dining was originally scheduled to recommence on July 5 but due to the prevalence of the Delta variant, has been delayed by at least two weeks.
It is not yet known what the government's plan for limiting indoor dining to vaccinated people will look like, or how it will work.