Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

My recollection of the Attorney General's advice on this is that we can introduce fairly immediately regulations on passengers coming from outside the EEA, the wider European area. We need primary legislation for Irish citizens and people living in the EEA. I would imagine that legislation will be turned around in record time, although this is subject to the Whips agreeing to it, what Dáil time we can get and the Attorney General being able to draft and proceed with the legislation. I would imagine also the Cabinet will be discussing the legislation next week. I do not know whether it will come to the transport committee. Such legislation relates to the health Act. It will be probably the health committee that will have responsibility for bringing it through what will have to be a rapid pre-legislative scrutiny. I do not know if we could even call it pre-legislative scrutiny when the timelines are going to be so tight.