Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Impact of Covid-19 on the Restaurant Industry: Discussion

Mr. Paul Treyvaud:

I will be very honest. It is next to impossible to implement. Who am I to ask someone at the front door of my restaurant if they are vaccinated? I might as well ask someone what colour underpants he or she is wearing. It is none of my business. If it is passed legally, so be it. However, is there a discrimination factor there? There absolutely is. My peers, colleagues and friends in the industry to whom I have spoken have said the exact same thing. We are going to find it next to impossible, because it is none of our business. I do not know how it will be implemented, to be perfectly honest. We are supposed to have it ready on 19 July, if that is when we are supposed to reopen. I do not know how it will be done or policed.

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