NO MASK NO TRAVEL
Martin’s warning as offenders face €2,500 fine or six months in jail
Commuters will not be allowed on a bus or train without a face mask from monday.
And any rogue travellers could be hit with a €2,500 fine or a sixmonth prison sentence if they don’t obey the rules.
The move was announced by Micheal Martin last night in one of his first major policy decisions as Taoiseach. He warned: “If people persist in disobeying, then gardai can be called.”
One more person with Covid-19 was confirmed to have died yesterday.
The 25 new cases was the most in a single day here since June 13.
THE boss of Meat Industry Ireland has said not all meat processing plants offer sick pay to their workers despite the clusters of coronavirus cases found at such settings.
The outbreak of the virus at meat plants came under scrutiny at Friday’s Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response.
Since the pandemic began, there were 1,100 positive cases of coronavirus in meat plants but there are currently no active cases of the virus at plants and no new cases since the middle of June.
Fine Gael TD Colm Burke suggested workers may have been afraid to come forward for fear of losing pay.
MII senior director Cormac Healy told the committee: “In some companies there is sick pay and in others there is not – which is common across the economy.
“All of the Government measures in terms of the pandemic situation and payments and entitlements were all given in the languages that the workers required.”