Business group ISME is calling for alternative ways of dealing with Covid-19 to be implemented Leeside

The company says another lockdown is not the solution

The group has contacted all 18 TDs is Cork City and County,  requesting that the government responds in a more strategic manner.

The organisation represents an excess of 10,000 businesses in Ireland, over 1000 of those in Cork.

It says it can no longer tolerate a situation where the State's only response to Covid-19 is to repeatedly furlough tens of thousands of workers.

Speaking to RedFM News, Chief executive of ISME Neil McDonnell, says another lockdown is not the solution to the problem: