Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is a more general issue, not just linked to Covid-19, although it may obviously have been a particular issue during the Covid crisis when people felt they wanted to come home for family reasons and so on. Deputy Cannon, the previous Minister of State with responsibility for the diaspora, did some good work relating to people coming home from the US to live in Ireland, including the challenges they had around setting up bank accounts, identity issues, driver's licence issues and other practical things that are needed to reintegrate quickly into society. He looked at solutions to each of those barriers and challenges. We could probably apply quite a few of those principles that focused on people coming back to Ireland from the US to people coming from other parts of the world. I will follow up with the Deputy on that, if he likes.

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