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The data comes as calls for a return to outdoor and sporting activities have increased following moderate easing of restrictions announced by the government last week, which will come into effect later this month.
Under current government guidance, outdoor attractions, such as zoos, and outdoor sporting facilities, such as golf courses and tennis courts, can reopen from 26 April, a date when non-contact training for underage sports is also permitted to restart.
Barring a return to training for inter-county GAA and elite level sport from 19 April, however, the return of training at adult level is not yet accounted for under government guidance. Outdoor meetings remain limited, meanwhile, to meetings between two households that can t take place in the garden of either household.
Deputy Foreign Editor
Ireland is in breach of the World Health Organization s International Health Regulations (IHR) on contagious disease control by failing to designate a competent authority at its ports and airports, according to documents seen by RTÉ News.
The documents also show that Ireland has been non-compliant for approximately a decade, despite high-level discussions on the issue between the Health Service Executive, Department of Health and Department of Transport.
Under the IHR a competent authority at points of entry must be designated to monitor the risk of dangerous contagious diseases entering the State.
Ireland has no such designated competent authority points of entry to the country.
THE Government is insisting that the absence of a World Health Organisation (WHO) required ‘competent authority’ for dealing with contagious diseases at our ports and airports is not affecting Ireland’s Covid-19 response.