Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As I said earlier, I am slightly annoyed by the answer we got on Wednesday from the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton. We all received a science lesson about testing and what is or is not good about antigen testing. When the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, was asked a question the next day, he replied that pilot schemes were about to be operated. I think that information should have been brought to us earlier.

On the insurance difficulties spoken about earlier, I met a number of travel agents in Dundalk fairly early on. They said that when things got back up and running and there was a green list, people came to them to book essential travel or for whatever reason. They bought tickets and packages and went abroad. If an area then fell off the green list, travel agents were worried that they would be wholly responsible if the person got sick. The travel agent would have been on the hook for it, even though the person chose to go and was informed that the destination he or she had booked was no longer on the green list. Once again, travel agents found themselves in a brutal scenario.