Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I think the Deputy is overstating the issue. We take the issue in terms of travel and its potential contributory effect to Covid very seriously. That is why we have one of the most restrictive travel frameworks globally. We are very restrictive in this country in terms of the number of people coming into the country and the advice we have given people, and people by and large have complied with that advice. Hence, the very low numbers, relative to what happened before Covid, that are travelling either in or out of the country. People are travelling to countries that, in my view, have a very high incidence of Covid, but it is important to say that there are other countries there that have a lower incidence of Covid than we have ourselves. I think there has to be a consistency of messaging in that regard as well.

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