{"id":1629,"date":"2021-06-29T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/governments-plans-unworkable-and-unenforceable\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T12:41:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:41:54","slug":"governments-plans-unworkable-and-unenforceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/governments-plans-unworkable-and-unenforceable\/","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s Plans Unworkable and Unenforceable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>We urgently need clarity on Nphet\u2019s figures and their projections<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s plans to reopen the country are unworkable, unenforceable and raise serious legal and ethical issues, according to Social Democrats Health Spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his address today, Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin said the government wanted to reopen the country in a \u201csensible\u201d and \u201cbalanced\u201d way. The government\u2019s proposed vaccine passport, to enable vaccinated people can gain entry to pubs and restaurants, is neither.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is completely unworkable, totally unenforceable and raises serious legal and ethical issues. Is the government seriously suggesting it should stand over a system predicated on unvaccinated younger people serving older vaccinated people in the hospitality sector \u2013 and those younger people being unable to dine in those establishments themselves?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is going to enforce this? In what way will it be enforced? What will be the penalties for non-enforcement? Will a legal liability attach to those premises that don\u2019t adequately enforce this measure? How much time will it take to devise such a system?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no answers to any of these questions. More importantly, the hospitality sector has no answers \u2013 just one week before indoor dining was supposed to reopen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpposition parties have not seen Nphet\u2019s figures or projections. We also do not know if Niac\u2019s revised vaccination programme, in which younger people can avail of Astra Zeneca with a shorter interval between first and second dose, factored into Nphet\u2019s calculations \u2013 given that announcement was only made last night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been provided with no detail about the manner in which their projected figures \u2013 which were much worse than anyone had envisaged \u2013 were arrived at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Morning Ireland yesterday, Professor Cathal Walsh, a member of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, stated that deferring indoor dining would lead to a 10pc reduction in cases by the end of July. Today, we are told that if the plan proceeds we could have 700,000 cases by the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now in a situation in which more than 40pc of adults are fully vaccinated and more than 60pc of people have received a first vaccine dose. At what point, in the vaccination schedule, is Nphet suggesting it will be safe to reopen indoor dining?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a complete vacuum of information currently. We also have no idea whether any alternative risk assessments were carried out \u2013 for instance, modelling on the level of covid transmission in indoor settings which have a reduced number of customers and a high level of ventilation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urgently need clarity on Nphet\u2019s figures and their projections. 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