Insurance companies asking applicants for Covid-19 status 

It is understood that many of Ireland's largest insurers are asking applicants if they have or have had Covid-19, but a representative for umbrella group Insurance Ireland said that the question was standard practice.

Insurance companies are asking life assurance applicants if they have or have had Covid-19, a move described as "a potential tax on frontline workers".

Fine Gael senator Tim Lombard has written to the Oireachtas Finance Committee to ask it to bring representatives from the industry before it to explain the move. Mr Lombard said that a frontline healthcare worker in Cork first brought the questions to his attention, saying that the woman was "horrified".