Operational Guidelines Now Urgently Required

First step should include outdoor service for all types of hospitality venues in late May. Indoor service should follow shortly afterwards for all pubs and restaurants when hotels reopen in June. Any long delay between NI ...

Late pubs and nightclubs important employers and also venues for live musicians/ DJs. Plan also needs to provide for use of bar counter and normal trading resuming in hospitality.

Hope required for hospitality and other ‘non essential’ sectors still closed. After such an extended closure Government has responsibility to provide pathway.

Choices came down to keeping indoor hospitality shut for several more months or proceed with 'hugely challenging' system. Huge political will now required to achieve 19 July reopening date.

Any pub or nightclub seeking to open late must pay Government additional €410 per night.

Too late to make an announcement on 2nd July if reopening is happening on 5th July. Mixed messaging coming from Government must stop.

LVA Opening Statement / Submission to the Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht On The Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector 23 March 2021. Noel Anderson, LVA Chair. Donall O ...

Urgent response required from Gov to suspend costs and allow Late Bars/Nightclubs obtain SEOs ahead of 22 Oct reopening.

Contradictory position to allow return of live music but prevent mingling, will delay the recovery of that sector.