Written answers

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Department of Health

Charitable and Voluntary Organisations

Photo of Michael LowryMichael Lowry (Tipperary, Independent)
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780. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary can obtain permission to complete a charity run from Mizen to Malin Head; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12680/21]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As you will be aware, the public health restrictions at level 5 of the Government's Framework Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19 will remain in place until 5th April 2021, when a further review will be conducted. The Framework continues to provide an appropriate mechanism to guide decision-making, and it will continue to be supplemented by more detailed sectoral guidance in relation to measures that apply at each level of the Framework.

On 23rd February, 2021, the Government published it's updated plan for managing Covid-19 - COVID-19 Resilience & Recovery 2021: The Path Ahead. This three part plan reviews the learnings from our experience to date, considers the enormous impacts our efforts to manage and suppress the disease have had on our economy and on our society and sets out a cautious and measured approach to the easing of restrictions over the coming months.

The public health measures in place at any level of the Plan recognise the need to reduce congregation and interactions between people to reduce the transmission of Covid-19. The number of people allowed to gather in different scenarios in the Plan is based on a review of international practice and the judgment of public health experts. It seeks to balance the risks of different types of gatherings against the desire to allow normal activities to proceed in so far as possible. The measures in place for each level reflect the prevailing disease situation and recognise that we can and must prioritise some activities over others.

Under the current restrictions at level 5, people are asked to stay at home as much as possible unless they have a "reasonable excuse" for leaving, which includes for exercise with 5km of home. Further information is available here - www.gov.ie/en/publication/2dc71-level-5/#travel-restrictions.

S.I. No. 701 of 2020 Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (COVID-19) (No. 10) Regulations 2020, as amended by S.I. No. 4 of 2021, S.I. No. 29 of 2021 and S.I. No. 95 of 2021, sets out the current public health restrictions at level 5.

Statutory Instruments relating to the Covid pandemic are available here: www.gov.ie/en/collection/1f150-view-statutory-instruments-related-to-the-covid-19-pandemic/.

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