Government to focus on booster uptake as it prepares mask legislation

The minister also reiterated there will not be an emergency cost-of-living budget before October’s Budget 2023 is revealed

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe (PA)

Paschal Donohoe, the finance minister, has said that the Government is to consider whether to introduce legislation on mandatory face coverings later this year, but will focus on the vaccine booster campaign in the interim.

It emerged this week that laws allowing for the reintroduction of mandatory mask-wearing in designated settings are to be drafted as a precautionary measure.