Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate

Ms Elizabeth Canavan:

On the Deputy's first point, he has heard from Mr. McCallion about what we are doing with people who are vaccinated between the two jurisdictions. The possibility of issuing certificates is there. We have not yet put in train an option for citizens residing elsewhere. We just have not got to it. From a logical point of view, we are conscious that a vaccination is a medical event and that those who can certify that medical event are the authorities in the state in which it occurred. We have not yet had the chance to look at the possibility of issuing certificates to Irish citizens where we can verify that the event happened in another state. We intend to look at that, but we just have not got to it yet.

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