Urgent new restrictions have been announced for Leinster House amid growing concern about Covid-19.
Among them are new safety measures for the Dail bar, which has become the first hospitality venue in Ireland to reintroduce rules around visitor numbers and face coverings.
A letter sent to TDs and Senators today - seen by the Irish Mirror - details the major changes which have been introduced until the Easter break to “protect each other from the highly transmissible airborne variant”.