''We do need to see significant improvement over the coming days in Dublin, and we've not seen it yet''.
The acting Chief Medical Officer has said the evidence isn't there yet that Dublin will be able to come down from level three restrictions.
The Health Minister and the CMO are appearing before the Dáil's COVID committee this morning.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has defended the testing system in Ireland saying we have faster turnaround times than most European countries.
Acting CMO Ronan Glynn has also been asked when businesses in Dublin will know if they can move back to level two restrictions and open fully again:
''I fully appreciate the need for certainty, but what I would say is that the measures that were put in place last Friday week for Dublin would only be beginning to take effect yesterday, today, tomorrow'', he said.
''But we do need to see significant improvement over the coming days in Dublin, and we've not seen it yet''.
363 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were announced for the Republic yesterday, 154 of which were in Dublin.
