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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is a database of people who have been Covid positive in the previous nine months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: What are the centre's contact details? Is there a freephone number or email address? Can people email? If someone was Covid positive within the past six months, can he or she contact the call centre and request a digital Covid certificate before 19 July or must he or she wait until then to make that call?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it correct to say that people who have received negative PCR tests and who will be flying will not get their digital Covid certificates until after 19 July? The only group that will get their digital Covid certificates prior to 19 July 2021 are those who have been fully vaccinated in Ireland. I anticipate that the intention is that everyone who has been fully vaccinated in Ireland will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: How many people are involved in that group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. McCallion is referring to approximately 100,000 fully vaccinated people whose details the HSE still seeks to get over. Finally, can people contact the digital Covid certificate call centre by email? Does it have to be by phone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: As this is a public forum, what is that freefone number? Does Mr. O'Connor have that freefone number at his disposal so he can give it out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: That number will be imprinted in most Irish people's brains in a short period of time. Is that number up and running now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have two quick questions. Who will be carrying out spot checks in airports and ports for people travelling in and out of Ireland? How is Ms Canavan certain that she is eliminating fraud? Because digital Covid certificates can be photocopied, the barcode or QR code will hold. Those are the two quick questions. Who will be carrying out spot checks at the airports and ports? Second, what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I now call on Deputy Cathal Crowe, who is now back at the meeting. He has six minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: In that regard, we are already getting many queries around the digital Covid certificate. Ms Canavan might look at setting up an Oireachtas liaison contact for us to interact with. That would make the system very streamlined. To clarify one thing, I am correct in saying that when the digital Covid certificate comes into play, people under the age of six do not require one and can accompany...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of the UK, that is a Government decision. Ms Canavan will appreciate there is a lot of over and back and families travelling to and fro. A situation where parents can travel but their children cannot results in huge difficulties just on a human level, so it is something that needs to be clarified. That we are doing negative PCR tests within the EU is something that should be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Senator Dooley, many of those issues have been clarified already. It would be no harm for Ms Canavan to do a quick recap.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Canavan, you might do a quick recap on those points and maybe deal with the issue of Marian Keyes getting a digital Covid certificate in someone else's name.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The GP has no role. If someone gets a digital Covid certificate in the post and is uncertain about the address or has received an incorrect digital Covid certificate, I assume he or she can ring 1800 851 504 immediately.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you. I am going to bring in two contributors but I will ask them to be a minute. If it is longer than a minute, I will have to cut in because we are over time and, obviously, we live in Covid times. Deputy Ó Murchú and Senator Horkan have a minute each. I ask them to abide by this please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I call Ms Canavan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is something we can look into and correct. On behalf of all my colleagues, I thank Ms Canavan, Mr. O'Connor, Ms Brett, Mr. O'Flaherty, Mr. McCallion, Mr. Lowry, Mr. Rogers and Ms Jones for attending today's meeting. It was hugely informative for the public. Our role, as public servants, is to disseminate information and ask questions. I thank Ms Canavan and her colleagues for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: This has been a very worthwhile engagement. It is important to give the freephone number, which is 1800 851 403. That is the number the public can ring, which is for the designated call centre for the digital Covid certificate. Our next meeting will be a private one at 4 p.m. today. We have a meeting with the Minister of State with responsibility for the roll-out of the digital Covid...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister for that update. I am aware of the operating model and the other crisis intervention measures. This is a specific issue. We need as many gardaí, and very much community gardaí, on the ground as possible. Under the future of policing strategy, the redeployment of gardaí from tasks such as courthouse duties in Mulgrave Street and at other courthouses in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Jul 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I very much welcome that. I ask that the Minister would follow up on the specific issue of court duties. The in-house security duties at the courts in Dublin are carried out by private security firms. That is not the case in places like Limerick. While the gardaí carry out a phenomenal role in the courts, for me and for many people the gardaí provide an exponentially better...