Updated / Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021
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Mary Favier stressed that the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh the risks
Covid-19 adviser for the Irish College of General Practitioners and member of National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) Dr Mary Favier has said the decision to change the roll-out of the AstraZeneca vaccine is significant and will cause some pause to the vaccination programme.
Dr Favier stressed that the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh the risks, and urged anyone under 60 and in a high risk category who has already received the first jab, to get the second dose. People really need to understand that the risk of Covid is still higher than any risk of the vaccine and vaccination is so important to get us out of these restrictions, she added.
Irish Labour Party introduces bill to ban gambling advertising
18th February 2021
| By Conor Mulheir
Ireland’s Labour Party has published draft legislation to ban all advertising of gambling in the jurisdiction.
If enacted, the Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021 would prohibit all forms of gambling advertising except sponsorship. The party said the bill would divorce the gambling industry from the everyday enjoyment of sports, politics and entertainment.
While Labour is in opposition, Minister for Public Health and Fine Gael TD Frankie Feighan has already said that he would support “the gist” of the bill, but said would need to read it before determining if he would back the bill itself.
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There s been some scenes at Dublin airport this week.
Nearly half of people arriving in Ireland were returning from their holidays this week, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.
Speaking at a parliamentary party meeting last night, the Taoiseach said that of the 800 people who came into the country through airports, 542 people were Irish and 397 were returning from holidays.
RTÉ News reports that Martin told TDs and Senators that the government is considering adding more countries to the mandatory quarantine list. The updated list now includes South Africa and Brazil.
This comes after an RTÉ Prime Time report depicted hundreds of holidaymakers returning to Ireland earlier this week.
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The Health Minister is claiming he never made such a promise and that September was simply the aspiration .
The Health Minister has rowed back on claims that everyone in Ireland will receive the COVID-19 vaccination by September. In an interview broadcast on RTÉ, Stephen Donnelly also admitted that many of the new restrictions announced by the government are simply an outline and work remains to be done.
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Since the government announcements that Level 5 restrictions will remain until March 5th, a number of concerns have been raised by Ministers around the specific detail of the plans, particularly to do with travel restrictions. The Labour Party s Alan Kelly recently called the government s travel restrictions half-baked , and say that stronger measures have to be put in .