A Waterford TD is hopeful that we can remain in level two Covid-19 restrictions.
There are fears that Waterford could be moved up a level due to the increase in cases.
109 cases were confirmed in Waterford over the last two weeks which brings the 14-day incidence rate to 93.8. That's up from 85.2 on Friday.
Dublin continues to have the highest rate at 138, Louth remains second at 101.1, Donegal has jumped from 72.9 on Friday to 96.7 and now has the third-highest rate.
Sinn Fein's David Cullinane met with Dr Ronan Glynn this morning:
"The message from the Acting Chief Medical Officer seems to be that we're not in a situation at this point where we will automatically go up a level.
"It is within our control to wrestle this back, we have to get the basics right and if we do that we can avoid that situation.
"It will very much depend on what happens over the next number of days."
Deputy Cullinane added that "the trend at least, seems to be that there has been a slight decrease and if it continues in that direction, I would be hopeful that we can avoid going up a level".
"There is no guarantee and it will come down now to the next number of days and the number of cases we see here."
The Sinn Fein TD says more information is needed about the outbreaks in Waterford
"It would seem that of the 65 cases over the last week, about half of those or more are directly related to this workplace outbreak.
"I have said to [Dr Glynn] that we need to get more information from the public health team on the ground, he has committed to giving a note to all Oireachtas members in Waterford over the next number of days to outline exactly what the situation is, what's happening within that workplace at the moment."
