Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 April 2021

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised)

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The short answer is that it will be. As with many other countries, the technology is being developed in the background and there is a co-ordinating role from the Commission in terms of making sure it works interjurisdictionally. in other words, if an Irish citizen lands in Paris, he or she could show a unique code on his or her phone, which the French authorities could recognise as that person having been fully vaccinated and, similarly, we could recognise that in respect of people arriving from other member states into one of our airports or ports. That work is going on in the background. Very significant work has been done on exactly this point in Ireland. Certainly we are looking very favourably at participation in the digital green certificate. It will be very welcome. If it works as we want it to work and as the European member states want it to work, for those who are exempted, namely, for fully vaccinated people, it will enable free travel in a way that has not been possible since this virus arrived.

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