Level Five lockdown has been extended until April 5th as the schools are set to re-open next week.
Leaving cert students and the youngest four classes in primary school will return next Monday with others staggered later in March and into April.
Childcare services will also return in phases starting on March 8th.
The new government roadmap for vaccination sees around 4.5 million doses delivered in the second quarter of this year with the Taoiseach saying by the end of June up to 82 per cent of adults will have had their first dose.
It has been met by a mixed response, and Sinn Fein TD for Cavan and Monaghan Pauline Tully told Aaron McElroy on The Wider View what she made of it.
The real key of the new plan is said to be data, not dates. Beyond a review on April 5th, there is no time line for when other sectors might open again.
Duncan Graham is the CEO of Retail Excellence, the representative body for the retail industry in Ireland.
He said there was no clarity at all for the sector.
