Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a plan for European countries, for countries in the Schengen area, which is contingent on all of it being signed off and implemented, hopefully by late June. Will the current trial between Rome Fiumicino and JFK International Airport in New York and other US airports continue? ill it coexist once the DGC is in place? Is it considered to be an interim arrangement?

Mr. Bassato mentioned something that captured my interest above everything, although it is now why he is before the committee. He said the first technical trial of digital green certification and how it will be administered in Italy will happen in a matter of weeks. Ireland will sign up to this. We know the technical specifications at a European end but we have not seen any prototype software or otherwise for how it will be run in Ireland. How far along is Italy in terms of having phone apps, e-certification and digital green certification? How much of this has Mr. Bassato been informed about? Will he elaborate on the trial? That is what I really want to hear. That is the pathway for his country and ours to get out of this awful situation where planes are not flying.