Government focus is on keeping schools open and ramping up booster programme – Taoiseach

Taoiseach Micheál Martin pleaded with the public to 'hold the collective nerve'. File picture

The Taoiseach said the focus for Government was keeping schools open and does not envisage addressing the nation ahead of Christmas.

Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan are to meet with Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan on Tuesday evening, and said they all keep in touch almost on a daily basis now with the Minister for Health, Steven Donnelly, in regards to the emergence of the Omicron variant.