Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Aviation

Mr. Ray Gray:

Some of that is driven by an understandable focus. People will hear of travel and see that as an infiltrator of the virus. From listening to the Chief Medical Officer each day I think that, statistically, the main drivers of the virus are around inter-community and other practices, rather than travel itself.

That is not to say travel is not very important and we, more than anybody, are very aware of that. That is why we want to work together to create a safe environment. That means looking at things like the process before people leave to travel to Ireland, things like passenger locator forms, pre-departure screening and other measures that are not in their own right a panacea but can play a part in putting in place safe travel measures.

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