Professor Paddy Mallon:

As tourism restarts, if there is no consideration for where the tourists are coming from, we are really giving ourselves a rod to break our back. I think we will have dissemination of tourists from a number of different countries around the island. In terms of how we cope with that and monitor it, the big consideration is that the Irish people are on the ball with this and have been engaged with it from the beginning. People coming in from other countries will not be in the same mindset and may not have the same knowledge in terms of reporting symptoms and how to get tested. The whole system around monitoring and contact tracing will, by definition, be less robust for tourists. That needs to be taken into consideration because it will increase the risk.