Professor Anthony Staines:

If we succeed, life would return to normal except that if one travelled abroad and came back one would almost certainly have to be tested and isolate for a period of time. How long that would be would depend on the final decisions around how, when and how often a person gets tested. That would be the main thing that members of the public would notice. Pubs and restaurants would open, Croke Park would open, the GAA would come back, we could hold weddings and I could have my birthday party. All of this would come back to normal. That is the plan and that is the desire. Businesses would be able to function as normal. Businesses would not have the awful uncertainty of wondering if they would be locked down next week or the week after next. All of that would be gone away. Life would be substantially returned to normal but foreign travel would still not be normal for at least some significant period of time and probably until there is a vaccine. I suspect that will be the middle of next year or even towards the end of next year.