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

Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

On the helpline issue, I echo and repeat Ms Canavan’s point that it is very important that only people with imminent travel arrangements should call the helpline, in particular, in the first period.

On the US certificates, these will be recognised for travel purposes. I estimate that there are conversations under way between the EU and key third countries, including the UK and the US, and it is a case of watching that space where there may be high-level agreements reached on this. I am not clear about the technical interoperability and whether they will be able to read QR codes from the US and we will look into that and issues to do with other third countries immediately after delivering on the work programme to 19 July.

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