Ms Oonagh Buckley:

The first thing that is worthwhile pointing out is there have been additional requirements on carriers dating back to May of last year. In general terms, we find a very high level of compliance with those requirements by passengers. In the first instance, as Mr. Towey pointed out, it is the obligation of individuals who are travelling to comply with the law. Secondly, we find a high level of compliance with carriers in terms of the checks they are required to do. Obviously, we have much more experience in recent times of checks on the EU digital Covid certificate and the passenger locator form. The new requirements on tests have only be in situsince the early hours of Sunday morning. In that time though, to offer some reassurance to the committee, some 80,000 passengers have immigrated through Dublin Airport up to midnight of last night and in that mix, we checked more than 10% at all times. In fact, in many flights we checked 100% of passengers. In those three days, we referred only 100 people to An Garda Síochána for failure to comply with the test requirement.