Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Travel Restrictions
Mr. Niall Burgess:
I will take the question on repatriation. We are working with approximately 1,000 people to get them home. Those are widely dispersed in all the regions that we already repatriated people from. We have relied very heavily on international co-operation to bring people home as quickly and effectively as possible. We accessed a European Union mechanism. The EU has repatriated close to 600 Irish citizens in an arrangement whereby we all work together to repatriate our citizens. We have worked with the UK, the US and Canada. We have also repatriated citizens from other countries. That network of international co-operation that has worked very well. We have not needed to draw on other resources to bring people back.
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