Children’s shoe shops are to be allowed open for appointments only

It has now been confirmed that shoe shops are being added to the essential retail list, allowing them to open and sell children’s shoes with appointments only.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly announced the news today, confirming that children’s shoe shops “need to be opened immediately”.

Speaking in the Dail, Taoiseach Michéal Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar agreed that people can buy children's shoes only if they make an appointment online or over the phone.

The government is currently working on advice surrounding this issue.

Discussing the issue on RTÉ’s One O’Clock News, Stephen Donnelly said, “I am clearly of the view that they need to be added to the essential retail list, specifically for children’s shoes. The acting Chief Medical Officer [Ronan Glynn] and I have spoken about it this morning and it is something I fully support and want to see implemented immediately.”

This new development comes after many parents complained over not being able to buy new shoes for their children, who had outgrown their old shoes during the lockdown and were in desperate need of replacements.

On last night’s episode of Prime Time, Tánaiste Varadkar even outlined how children’s shoes are viewed as “essential”, after having “heard some instances of children who need special medical footwear”.

Therefore it became clear that access to new children’s footwear needed to be considered into the government’s new plan for easing the restrictions. “I think we’ll need to look at that if there’s a particular condition they have,” Varadkar noted on Prime Time.

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