Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy O'Rourke raises a very valid point. Whatever we do at national level with the health protocols, there is a level of responsibility on anyone who is planning to travel here for essential work or who is returning home for Christmas to visit family, relatives and friends.

It is in our interests to ensure that we act responsibly, that such persons take a PCR test in advance if they are coming from an orange-listed country and again after five days for people coming from a red-listed country. We need to await the advice. We do not know where we will be with this virus, which is moving in a positive direction. The Deputy can be assured that the high-level governmental group will be watching international travel and will be working with the CMO on the travel advice. For people who are travelling, the DAA has established a webpage with details of airport testing availability. I ask passengers to look at that as well as gov.iefor the advice the Government will be giving.

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