Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 31 – Transport (Revised)

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

I will give the Chairman a kind of timeframe. The common European traffic light approach was agreed at a meeting of the European Council and now it is up to individual member states to work on their own testing regimes. That is why, following that decision and yesterday's Cabinet meeting, we have agreed the policy approach. From midnight tonight, those coming from green list countries to Ireland do not have to restrict their movements. On the list of amber countries, we will be requiring a preflight test and that will commence from 8 November so people travelling to Ireland-----

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