Robert Troy
Question:786. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if cleaning companies engaged in certain locations (details supplied) can work in level 5 restrictions. [11275/21]
View answerWednesday, 3 March 2021
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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 5 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 23 February, 2021, the Government published Covid-19 Resilience & Recovery 2021: The Path Ahead which sets out how in-school education and childcare services will be reinstated in a phased manner from 1 March, with staggered return throughout March to be concluded after the Easter break on 12 April. Information on the revised plan is available here – https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/c4876-covid-19-resilience-and-recovery-2021-the-path-ahead/?referrer=http://www.gov.ie/ThePathAhead/
Cleaning companies are permitted to continue to work in Level 5 where such services are necessary to support any other essential service, this includes the cleaning of buildings and industrial cleaning activities (see: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/c9158-essential-services/ Administrative and Support Services).
Regulations (SI 701) make provision for the continuation of these services (see Paragraph 13 of Schedule of Essential Services). Statutory Instruments related to the Covid-19 pandemic are available online: https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/1f150-view-statutory-instruments-related-to-the-covid-19-pandemic/