Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a couple of questions. I am one of those people whose name is in Irish on their on the vaccination card. I changed it mid-stream because I realised that was the direction in which we were going. Many people have been in touch with me about this matter. Their names are different on their passports and so on. I have raised this with Ministers. It was as if they were hearing it for the first time. It is not unusual for Irish people to have different names on their passports, birth certificates or whatever. Part of the difficulty is that people could have three different names and any of those could be on their documentation.

I also wanted to ask about people from the North of Ireland. Questions have been asked about other jurisdictions. Consider, for example, a person from the North of Ireland who could have been vaccinated there but who lives in the South or someone from the North travelling through Dublin or whatever. We were told that they would have their own digital certificate which would suffice. Do we have any more up-to-date information for those people who are travelling? Many of them travel through Dublin, Cork, Knock, or wherever else; they travel around southern airports to get to European destinations. Is there information for that cohort of people who regularly use Irish airports? They are Irish citizens, but they may have been vaccinated in the North or elsewhere.