Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is also important to say that the staff are protecting not just a passenger who could be committing an offence, but the rest of passengers on the plane who have all been tested and have been shown not to have Covid. If people have turned up without that proof there is less guarantee that they are Covid free than everyone else who has been tested. That is important. If I am getting on a plane having passed all of the tests and have to sit beside people for a half-hour flight to Liverpool, a four-hour flight to the Canaries or Greece or a seven-hour flight to the Middle East or America, I want to know that the people on that plane are unlikely to infect me with any variant, regardless of my vaccination status.

This system has to happen. I am not trying to do it down. People are talking about this on the radio and elsewhere. It is good. It is important that people understand they are likely to be caught and prosecuted. Did the officials manage to find out what the penalties were for the 100 people referred for not turning up with a test? Is the punishment a slap on the wrist? What are the current sanctions in law?