Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

The basic premise is that each individual, whether a member of a family or not, is required to observe the requirements in place for accessing the country. The Chair mentioned a circumstance in a minority of cases, where someone who has had Covid had the issue where they persistently triggered positive results on PCR tests. That was a real difficulty, particularly before we widened the scope of testing. However, we provided for that. If that person can show the positive PCR test that referred to their having Covid and it is more than ten days old, then they are in the recovery status.

If that is more than ten days old, the individual is deemed to have recovered from Covid, which is recovery status, and that is deemed to be on a par with vaccination in terms of immunity. That is how we resolved that problem. That was a real problem for a while but it was ironed in further regulations.