Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Towey and Ms Buckley for their responses and I appreciate that when they come to these meetings, they are asked the standard questions and a few curveball questions. We do not expect answers to everything, but I hope for an answer to this question in the coming days, as it has arisen for me a few times. I would love to know the answer to it. I remember way back at the start of Covid, when very few commercial flights were taking off, private flights were still going between Britain and Ireland. It would be important to establish what is in place for those flights and for self-flown flights, of which there may be ten or 12 per week. They do take off and go over and back and it is important to establish whether measures are in place and whether there was a way of verifying it.

Digital Covid certification is neat and simplified in that one has it on one's phone and scans it going through the airport. It helps all agencies concerned, but there are some people who still come to the airports with certification in a paper format. Has Ms Buckley seen any forged paper certificates? Has this increased or decreased? Is it elaborate? Are there ways of detecting it? What sanctions are there? Is the individual pulled, there and then, from the airport and sent home or to a Garda station?