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

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is something we can look into and correct.

On behalf of all my colleagues, I thank Ms Canavan, Mr. O'Connor, Ms Brett, Mr. O'Flaherty, Mr. McCallion, Mr. Lowry, Mr. Rogers and Ms Jones for attending today's meeting. It was hugely informative for the public. Our role, as public servants, is to disseminate information and ask questions. I thank Ms Canavan and her colleagues for the substantial amount of work they have done. There will be tweaks in the system. There are policy issues we could not deal with today regarding the common travel area and other designated countries and how they will be dealt with from 19 July. That is why the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, is before us tomorrow. I thank Ms Canavan and all the witnesses for the work they do. We look forward to further interacting with them. No doubt Ms Canavan will take on board our constructive requests. An Oireachtas liaison contact person would make much sense, so that we could make representations on behalf of our constituents, which is the norm. I have no doubt she will take that on board. Ms Canavan, do you wish to make any closing comments?

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