TDs advised not to spend more than two hours a day inside Dáil chamber

In practise this means that if 20 TDs spent 3 hours meeting, and over the next two days one of them developed symptoms, all 20 would have to self-isolate for 2 weeks.

The advice causes difficulties for how Ministerial or Taoiseach's Questions would work and how the Ceann Comhairle would operate.

New advice suggests TDs can not spend longer than two hours a day inside the Dáil chamber.

The Covid-19 committee has been given medical advice saying if someone spends more than two hours in an enclosed space with someone they are considered a contact for public health purposes.