Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Aviation Sector: Discussion
Mr. Paul Hackett:
Last February, Italy was pandemic central yet it opened for inbound and outbound travel on 3 June. It has done so successfully and safely, and continues to have lower case rates than we have. We have lockdown, with travel and pubs closed. We have effectively closed entire sectors of our economy to no avail in terms of where community transmission rates are going. If we are calling out community transmission, we are acknowledging that we do not know where the cause of the infection has come from. That is not good enough when we are seven months in and the economy is in freefall.
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