Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 24 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on International Travel

Mr. Evan Cullen:

I absolutely agree with the Deputy. I am saying that there should be a green list that is informed, that is understood and that has expertise involved in it. The green list Ireland has published is clearly uninformed. The evidence of that is overwhelming when one takes into consideration, for example, the Canary Islands. To suggest that the Canary Islands should, for the purposes of a national health strategy, be seen as part of Spain and the problems we saw in Madrid is nonsense. The Canary Islands are the same distance from Spain as Iceland is from Ireland. Who drew up this list and what was their logic in doing it? It was not based on science.