Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed)

Mr. Eddie Wilson:

The issue of testing is one for the public health authorities because they have to look at every citizen in the State, look at all the risks, and look at how to carry that out. The idea that one would just confine this to inbound travel is something to explore, but probably more so from countries on long-haul basis. I say this in a very general way. There is not that requirement in the European Union at the moment. I bring this back to the World Health Organization and how countries deal with this on a sub-national level rather than trying to parse it out into international travel. Regardless of whether we have international travel we will have a-----

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