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. Damien McCallion:

That is correct. The rationale for that is that only a skeletal amount of data has been collected on people who have tested positive. For the purposes of public health, we are trying to get people tested quickly and to allow them to take positive actions if they test positive. We collect a more comprehensive data set for vaccination and we are, therefore, able to do a more thorough search and remove people who are deceased as best we can in order to minimise any impact on people receiving those certificates.

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