Restaurants will be allowed provide takeaway service for the remainder of the year under plans advanced by Minister for Local Government Darragh OâBrien to boost the sector as lockdown restrictions ease. Local authority fees for using street furniture outside hotels, restaurants and pubs will also be waived for the same period, the Minster told an Oireachtas committee. He also wants to scrap the requirement for planning permission to erect awnings and other coverings over outdoor tables and chairs. âLike many other sectors, the hospitality and restaurant sector and the wider tourism sector has suffered the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic both last year and this year,â Mr OâBrien told a meeting in the Dáil chamber of the joint Oireachtas committee on housing, local government and heritage.