Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

The big issue is, as you say, the perception that Failte guidelines are rules. They are not. What Failte is producing are a condensed interpretation of the rules to save businesses from having to read the legislation and try to understand it themselves.

Unfortunately, it is common for interpretations of the rules to make mistakes; there are a number of errors in the Rules of the Road that the RSA produces, for example.

Michael McNamara is using this as a point-scoring exercise, but he does have a point; The government are offloading the responsibility for producing these guidelines onto Failte. I appreciate the nature of current times has required many people and departments to step outside of their remit, but whatever is produced should be produced by the relevant authority in the area - The Department of Tourism. They should be producing a single document outlining all of the legislative changes as well as the current state-of-play for all hospitality businesses and what they are legally obliged to do.

Fáilte should then be produced a separate guide on safe reopening, which includes a mix of statutory measures, health advice and good practice. If it's all left to Fáilte, there's no distinction made between the 3 and everyone ends up thinking it's all statutory.

Then you end up with farces like the Merrion thing where weeks of time are wasted getting het up over nothing.

Precisely 😏

It is absolutely terrifying the road that we are being led down. By normalising this nonsense, we are further ensuring that these certs will be less likely to go away - regardless of vaccination status or percentage.

They are an incredibly dangerous idea and they are being encouraged for use in other, critical, areas of everyday life by the national media and official Ireland.

Everyone needs to calm down a bit and take a breath before we create a very dysfunctional society.

IF it was required, it's easy to imagine compliance imo. People wont like it obviously, but it isn't long since we had Garda checkpoints to quiz you on why you were x km from your house, we have statutory instruments for penalties if you're breaking restrictions, etc. Not many people really cared about any of this (although they should have).

So the official narrative is catching up with what was obvious from data a year ago.

CMO: "vaccination isn't enough"

Of course they'll continue to push covid certs, while saying "vaccination isn't enough".

It's the awful PBH in today poor Claire off on hols 🙄🙄

It's really not new at all. They've been saying it for over a years and the positive version is "the public were ahead of us".

She might ring in!

His head will spin when they see some social media videos over the weekend 😁

O I know but there about to have collective heart attacks when they see a change in behaviour in night clubs over the weekend 😏

Why is it staggering to see inspections, when everyone knows certs aren't being checked in lots of places ? I mean rightly or wrongly, we're a rules based society.

If checking certs is the only thing required and hospitality is back to normal apart from that, its not that big a deal is it ? Personally I doubt anywhere that isn't checking, is doing it out of principle, its purely laziness or couldn't be ar$ed.

I totally get that with 90%+ of adults vaccinated, its either not that big a deal, or a pointless exercise, depending on how you look at it, but its a relatively small price to pay to reopen fully, isn't it ?