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

I will announce further details next week. The European Union gave countries up to eight weeks from 1 July to introduce a system. We picked 19 July for a variety of reasons but a primary reason was that I do not think any other health system in Europe has been subjected to the same cyberattack as we were, which in effect took out our IT systems for the past five or six weeks since the strike took place. It has taken a Herculean effort to get those systems back. We have them back and I am confident we will have the certificates in time for that launch. The final arrangements are being put in place by the Department of Health and I expect that I will have those final details next week.