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

I would be happy to have a debate on this issue in Government time. Deputy Griffin will talk to Deputy Creed about organising that. It is already the case that being

fully vaccinated exempts people from mandatory hotel quarantine. That makes sense and the vast majority of people agree with that. It is the intention of the Government to opt in to the green digital certificate being prepared by the European Union but we do not know exactly what that is yet. It has to be bottomed out and clarified. As the Deputy knows, we are not in the Schengen zone and it might be the case that member states have a lot of discretion as to how they use it. It may be a common tool but it may not be used or applied uniformly across member states. We need to know exactly what it is before we decide to use it and how to do so. It is still being developed.

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