Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. What we have done thus far is to reduce international and oversea travel into Ireland by about 95%. Anybody arriving in the country is required to have a PCR test taken three days before arrival. There is 98% or 99% compliance with that which is very good. Mandatory home quarantine is now the law. Next week we expect to have legislation on mandatory hotel quarantine. As I said earlier, we are adding 18 countries to the list for which mandatory hotel quarantine will be required, increasing it to 20.

The laggard is Northern Ireland. It may well be the case that at the moment, there is not any travel from beyond Britain and Ireland but there is travel from Britain into Northern Ireland and there is no requirement to have a PCR test, nor one for mandatory home quarantine or for mandatory hotel quarantine. I appeal to the Deputy, as a member of the Sinn Féin leadership, to use his influence on the co-leaders of that government to change that policy.

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