Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and some of the questions are primarily for ministerial colleagues. I will relay the questions that are more appropriate for other Ministers directly to them.

With regard to the pubs and restaurants, we are open to suggestions from the industry players regarding how they can operate safely and we are engaging with people in the industry to see if this can be done. Speaking as somebody who ran a pub for three years in the past, it is a very difficult environment in which to put in place the social distancing that would be required, but that is not to say we are not open to suggestions and ideas on how it could be possible. We want to try to be fair to everybody. These are matters we are working on. It is similar with regard to sports. The Deputy referred specifically to golf. We have been working with all the national governing bodies in sport on developing plans for how their activities could return as soon as possible but, again, public safety and health are at the heart of everything we are doing. These are things that are critically important to people's well-being and have a huge economic impact as well. We will continue that collaboration.

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