Simon Harris: It was not a mistake to speed up Ireland's reopening

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD. Picture:Gareth Chaney/Collins

HIGHER Education Minister Simon Harris says that he does not feel the last government made a mistake by accelerating Ireland's Covid-19 recovery roadmap.

Mr Harris was the Health Minister in June when he and then-taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced a jumping ahead of the original roadmap to move to what they called "Phase Two Plus".