Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion

Ms Elizabeth Canavan:

We are anticipating that some people might have a different name on a passport or something like that. Our focus with the emergency line is for people travelling very urgently who are worried about the certificate they received, including if there is an inaccuracy on it. We are trying to prioritise those people travelling very soon. We are thinking there may be a small number of issues like that or if a person has moved, for example, and not received a certificate. We are anticipating such matters that may arise.

Mr. McCallion might speak to the data quality clean-up we have been working on because there are many different sources. On the numbers, we are full on in trying to get the 1.9 million certificates for which we have given data. It will be very close to the wire and we may run past 19 July. Our intention is to try to get those as close as possible to 19 July so we can get to everybody. We must bear in mind that this is what we might call the backlog, for want of a better word. Every day people will become eligible and we must catch up with that group as well.

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