Parents can buy clothes for kids, says Martin

Childrens clothes in a supermarket near Cardiff are deemed non-essential items and are cordoned off. A similar scenario has caused controversy here this week. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA

Parents will be able to buy children's clothes during this lockdown, the Taoiseach has insisted, as two Government TDs question the ban on the sale of non-essential items in supermarkets.

Micheál Martin's comments come after junior minister Damien English said that "clothes are not essential".