Missed Opportunity as Law prevents Reserve Forces from helping out during pandemic

The Reserve Defence Forces would have been great for contact tracing, testing and so many other tasks. In particular, they should have been mobilised to augment their PDF colleagues by doing barrack duties. It certainly is a missed opportunity that they have not been called on to assist throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read the full article here from the Irish Times:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/missed-opportunity-as-law-prevents-reserve-forces-helping-out-in-pandemic-m6sg7snq0?fbclid=IwAR3wOVieW0Y75yD7y-aAEbbiQ2GwI13o4QQA4Sv27VIk9chaB_MgsvIob2s