Ms Deirdre Ní Fhallúin:

In general, it is a matter for citizens to interact with their travel insurance companies around that kind of support. Where we can, do and have offered support is in travelling home and ensuring that people can access the funds to do so. Those are the more frequent cases that we would see, certainly since the introduction of these new regulations. As I said, it has only been 48 hours or so, but we have not come across cases so far of people stranded abroad who have persistently tested positive, but we will monitor that. The supports we offer are for people in certain hardship cases who need such supports. Funding is returned for their flights home. We generally do not have the capacity to support accommodation or subsistence needs for those who are stranded abroad. Where we have large cohorts, such as we saw in Morocco, we would then move to charter flights to pre-empt people being stuck abroad and incurring additional accommodation needs by chartering a repatriation flight.