A Waterford-based musician and lecturer says real damage is being done to the mental health of musicians at the moment.
Live music is still not being permitted in licenced premises.
High profile members of the music industry in Ireland have called on the government to reopen the sector.
Mark Graham says the Fáilte Ireland guidelines for indoor hospitality have done nothing for those in his industry:
"The guidelines are a very blunt instrument for what is a very nuanced industry. And it just seems lazy.
"If that was it, that would be fine - if it was just lazy, that would be ok. But it's causing people real damage to their mental health and self-esteem.
"What you have is an industry of people who have their identity tied up in the job that they do. And when they're not allowed do their job, it's not just that they can't earn a living now, but their sense of self is being lost."
Mark also feels the pilot concerts and other events that have taken place were little more than a government PR stunt.
He says, as far as he can see, they were pointless:
"One can only think that they were used purely for the purposes of PR.
"When you see an event like Christy Moore playing in the INEC in Killarney - that is a licenced premises - that gig went off without a hitch. But that hasn't been taken into account.
"So, one has to ask the question, what were the pilot gigs for? The guidelines have changed since those pilot gigs - they've gotten worse!
"There's less allowed since the pilot gigs and the pilot gigs were deemed to be successful."
Continuing, the host of the Irish Music Industry Podcast, said the restrictions for musicians are simply unfair:
"What you have now is a set of guidelines where it's now an offence to play music and the owner of the premises can be held accountable for this offence.
"So, if there's live music in a venue, in a licenced premises, that's now an offence. And I don't think there's a guard in the country who wants to go onto a licenced premises and arrest somebody because they're playing music."
