€500 fine for visiting grave , but you can travel to Belmullet for a prescription

In Blog, Health by Denis Naughten

Under regulations introduced by Government the 5km travel restriction has been abolished except for exercise but you can’t visit a graveyard even if it’s next door to your home.

But this new law is a complete contradiction to what is presently set out under Level 5 on the Governments website.

Because  of these contradictions it is now legal to go to Belmullet to pick up a prescription but you can’t visit a graveyard even if it’s next door to you.

Government needs to get its act together immediately

see my full contribution here: https://youtu.be/hnYABr7AWCA

See the contradictions here:

 

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS.

S.I. No. 448 of 2020 https://assets.gov.ie/93456/96b8b3b1-5293-42f6-9cfa-080e7bbf3fdd.pdf

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HEALTH ACT 1947 (SECTION 31A – TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS) (COVID-19) (NO. 8) REGULATIONS 2020

 

Restrictions of movement of relevant persons in relation to travel from place of residence

  1. (1) An applicable person shall not leave his or her place of residence without reasonable excuse.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of what constitutes a reasonable excuse for the purposes of paragraph (1), a reasonable excuse for travelling or moving includes travelling or moving in order to –

(x) exercise, within a 5 kilometre radius of the person’s place of residence,

 

Ireland is at Level 5 from Gov.ie website

 

Domestic travel restrictions https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/2dc71-level-5/

 

Stay at home.

Exercise within 5 kilometres of home.

There will be a penalty for movement outside 5 kilometres of home, with the following exceptions:

  • travel to and from work, where work involves providing an essential service
  • to attend medical appointments and collect medicines and other health products
  • travel to attend disability day services
  • for food shopping
  • to take school aged children to permitted training as provided for in the Exercise and Sporting section above
  • for vital family reasons, such as providing care to children, elderly or vulnerable people, and in particular for those who live alone but excluding social family visits
  • for farming purposes, that is food production or care of animals
  • to attend a wedding or funeral
  • to visit a grave