Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the timeline, part of the reason for the delay was because Ireland had to sign up to the EU traffic light approach and that Council meeting took place last week. We had to align with our EU counterparts and see what that decision was going to be. From midnight tonight, 90% of the passengers coming in will be restricting their movements for 14 days. There are not very many people travelling from green list countries. It is about 10% of the passengers who would have come here this time last year. The amber list country requirement will become effective at midnight on Sunday 8 November, with a pre-departure test for people travelling from amber list counties. The red list countries, like Ireland, will be as it is for the moment where people will have to restrict their movements for 14 days. The high-level technical group will be looking at testing regimes for red list countries and how it would work.