As more people are encouraged to get back to work, the executive's document accepts there will be an increasing demand for public transport which has been operating at a limited capacity.

In stage two, the pathway says social distancing measures remain in place with "peak services" especially under pressure.

Stage four says home working and staggered work starting times would help in easing demand as the economy continues to restart.

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In the final stage, public transport will operate "a full service".

Throughout, the executive says it will encourage people to walk and cycle.

There's plenty of reaction coming in on the NI Executive's roadmap out of lockdown, with lots of focus on there being no dates for the five-step plan.

Colin Neill, of Hospitality Ulster, tells Talkback that the hospitality sector would have been helped if it had even approximate dates as to when it could start to open again.

The executive's plan for lifting restrictions lists the partial opening of the sector in the fifth and final phase.

"We need to plan, even to stay shut we need to plan," Mr Neill tells Talkback.

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"We need to know, if we're going to be at stage five, we need to know are the assembly going to do away with our rates, help us with more grants, is the furlough scheme going to stay there?

"Saying off in the distance somewhere you will be open, without knowing if there is a lifeboat to take you there is a huge challenge."

It's a view echoed by Belfast Chamber chief executive, and former DUP Stormont minister, Simon Hamilton, who tweeted that the lack of dates is "disappointing".

Both Ms O'Neill and Mrs Foster have commended the "repurposing" of many businesses across Northern Ireland who have shifted production to providing PPE and supporting the health service.

Ms O'Neill tells the assembly "we could be facing a second wave" and "we may require them again".

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The deputy first minister says this pandemic must be a "lesson for the future".

"We need to be self-sufficient, so our companies that have repurposed perhaps there is a future for them," she says.

Ms O'Neill stresses the need to have "sufficient levels of PPE if and when we ever require them again".

There is no imminent return to school for most pupils, however, the current policy of school provision for the children of key workers will be expanded, beginning in stage two of the executive's roadmap.

It is by stage four when "schools expand provision to accommodate all pupils on a part-time basis".

This will involve a mix of in-school and remote learning.

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The executive's final stage will see an expansion of "early year school provision to full-time basis".

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There are no dates outlining when Northern Ireland will move into the various steps of the roadmap - but Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill says that while the executive will review every few weeks, it can move ahead of those reviews if the scientific advice is good.

"We looked very carefully at the issue of putting timelines and specific dates to certain areas and we decided against that for the reason that people want light at the end of the tunnel and we don't want to build up expectation and then you have to move back," she says.

"We have built in enough flexibility to this programme that if the chief scientific officer were to sit down tomorrow and say we're now at 0.5 (in the R number, the average rate of infection transmission), for example, we could move into step one ahead of the three weeks," she adds.

In the first stage, garden centres can reopen as "large outdoor based retail" can let customers through the doors.

By step two, "non-food retail can open", albeit with limited numbers and social distancing measures in place.

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The executive's document skips to stage four of its recovery plan when hairdressers, fitness studios and tattoo artists are among the businesses which can reopen, subject to mitigations.

In the final stage, restaurants, cafes and pubs can reopen "on a limited basis to start with".

The first step will be for people who are unable to work from home to return to the workplace on a phased basis.

By step three, this expands to a return for office workers and onsite working.

The final stage will be to allow all workers to return "subject to mitigations".

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The executive says throughout its stages remote working will be "strongly encouraged".

Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill tells the assembly the pathway out of the pandemic will require patience from the public.

Ms O'Neill said she knows people "crave seeing loved ones" and businesses want clarity on "when to open".

She says the executive does not underestimate the severe restrictions that have been put in place.

"Restrictions remain because they are necessary and because they are working," Ms O'Neill said.

'Biggest threat is complacency."

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Arlene Foster tells the assembly that "our road map won't answer every query".

"There is scope for the departments to be more clear with different sections on the economy," she says, giving construction and manufacturing as examples.

First Minister Arlene Foster is delivering the plan to the assembly now.

"The time is not right for making major steps," says Mrs Foster.

She says "just as there was no rule book for putting restrictions in place, there is no set pathway for lifting the restrictions either".

She added "differences and nuances between the UK will emerge" and Northern Ireland will engage with the Republic of Ireland when it comes to easing restrictions.

A five-stage plan for easing the Covid-19 lockdown in Northern Ireland has been published by the executive.

Unlike plans announced in England the Repubic of Ireland, NI's blueprint does not include a timetable for moving from one step to the next.

Progression will depend on when certain public health criteria is met, say ministers.

The first step includes changes to rules on exercise and allowing churches to open for private prayer.

Read more here.

The executive has published its "pathway to recovery" with five steps for relaxing Covid-19 restrictions, external, covering working practices, education, retail, travel, sporting and cultural events, and contact between families and households.

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The regulations, the document says, will be reviewed "within every three week period" and "each process of review should not be read as being linked to the next step of the relaxations".

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In conclusion, the executive says: "The steps we are all taking are working and, if we continue to work together, they will enable the restrictions to be relaxed in stages when the time is right.

"In the meantime we ask that you continue to adhere to the regulations and follow official advice.

"By doing that, we will be able to remove the restrictions more quickly and restore your freedoms to work, visit and play."

More than 100 NHS staff at the Western Health and Social Care Trust have tested positive for Covid-19.

The trust has revealed in an answer to the BBC that 1,209 staff have been tested so far, and 127 of them have tested positive.

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Substitute teachers say they are losing out since schools shut down.

All full-time teachers are receiving their normal pay, while supply teachers on fixed-term contracts including maternity cover are only being paid "for the period of time they have been engaged to work".

Speaking to the Nolan Show, substitute teacher Shauna said they had been "left at the bottom of the scrap heap".

"We are not being recognised but we are still teachers at the end of the day," she said.

Shauna, who is expecing a baby in October, said she had financial worries.

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Cara, who is also a substitute teacher, said she had not been paid since 20 March.

"Most subs have put some money away for summer but that'll have to be used now because we have no money," she told the Nolan Show.

"I'm 23 and I shouldn't have to go back to my parents crying because the government is not able to help me."

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Power NI's decision to cut its domestic electricity prices by less than 5% has been criticised as "far too little, far too late" by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

Roger Pollen, head of external affairs at the FSB in Northern Ireland, said the wholesale price of oil had fallen by more than 10 times that amount in the past year.

"The reduction is also not going to take effect until the month after next, meaning that higher prices will have persisted throughout the very worst of the economic lockdown," he added.

But Power NI said the price cut would mean customers "paying significantly less than households in the Republic of Ireland, GB and across Europe".

The utility regulator also explained that the "exceptional fall in demand for electricity because of the Covid-19 pandemic" had pushed up network costs which offset some of the fall in wholesale energy costs.

Read more here.

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Chancellor Rishi Sunak is to reveal the future of the government's job retention scheme later, amid growing calls to extend it.

Currently more than six million people are having up to 80% of their wages paid by the government while they are temporarily on leave from their jobs.

Mr Sunak previously warned the furlough scheme, due to end in June, was not "sustainable" at its current rate.

The government is encouraging people in England to return to work if safe.

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A plane carrying kit for NHS staff has landed in Northern Ireland from Turkey.

The planes brought in 30 tonnes of personal protective equipment (PPE) into Belfast International Airport.

It will be distributed to hospitals in Belfast and Londonderry.

The PPE was purchased and supplied by Hospital Services Ltd, and the 125,000 gowns included in the load are the first part of a number of deliveries by the company.

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Ryanair passengers will have to ask to use the toilet as new safety measures are introduced by the airline.

The carrier plans to reintroduce 40% of flights from 1 July, subject to travel restrictions being lifted and safety measures being brought in at airports.

The airline will operate nearly 1,000 flights a day, bringing back nearly all of its pre-Covid 19 route network.

Other new rules include face coverings being worn by all crew and passengers and cashless on-board transactions.

Queues for the toilet will be banned during flights and passengers will have to request access from crew members.

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Unite's Moy Park representative Sean McKeever has warned that unless there is mass-testing for meat-packing workers and deep cleaning of factories then he fears there could be similar scenario seen in care homes.

"What we have at the minute in the care homes, they've been badly affected, we believe this will be the next scenario," he told BBC NI's Nolan programme.

"This big cluster of meat plants, particularly in the Mid-Ulster area".

Yesterday, the union said a worker based in Moy Park Dungannon had died following contracting the Covid-19 virus.

Moy Park said significant safety measures had been in place for some time and were stringently followed.

Unite has written to the first and deputy first ministers demanding mass testing for agri-food workers and a special task force to oversee infection control in meat and poultry factories.

Mr McKeever told the programme he is yet to receive a reply from the executive.

The executive is set to finalise and publish a five-stage plan later on Tuesday for easing lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland.

It is expected the blueprint will be published at about 11:30 BST and will then be debated by the assembly.