The Health Minister is playing down the impact of foreign travel on the spread of Covid-19.
Ireland won't be moving into phase four of easing restrictions as planned next week.
Pubs, nightclubs and casinos can't reopen after the reproduction rate of the virus has risen to between 1.2 and 1.8.
Face-coverings in all shops will become mandatory and no more than 10 people can attend social gatherings in a house.
Meanwhile
A Waterford-based publican says she feels let down by the Government.
Mary Brady Sharpe runs Brady's pub in St John's Park and is chairperson of Waterford City VFI.
She says it's been a tough time:
"It's hard. It's very very hard. It means that pubs that we call wet pubs, the ones that don't serve food or choose not to, will be 5 months closed."
"We have part time staff and full time staff that were due back to work on Monday, I have to contact them now and tell them that we're not going to be good to go"
