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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Thank you, Mr. Breslin.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Mr. Ó Conaill said calls. Is that a visit or a telephone call?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Presumably it is a mobile call if it relates to visitors coming into the country.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: If it is a mobile phone, how does the Department know where somebody is when it phones him or her? Does it just ask the person?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Ó Conaill.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr Breslin. If there is time at the end, Mr. Doherty may contribute again. I am aware that he had another question.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Are you referring to people going to other countries?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: I have a couple of questions, one of which is to convey a query. I was contacted by a company which is developing a renal dialysis unit in a hospital in Ireland and it requires specialist engineers from the UK to travel to Ireland. The company is a little unclear as to whether those engineers are legally required to self-isolate for 14 days when they come here and then start working or can...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: My understanding is that the company has sought clarification and is unable to get it. Is there any place that this company, and companies like it, can get clarification on that point to ensure that Ireland can be clear on the matter? Even if it is as clear as mud to people who live here what they can and cannot do, that would ensure that at least people from abroad can be clear on what...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Can I ask the HSE representative if it has a unit or a contact point for such queries?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Not on this specific case; this is just one instance. There are, I am sure, a number of companies that would like to find out what exactly they can and cannot do lawfully in Ireland. Is there currently a unit they can contact?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Just to be clear, it is not a legal requirement for anybody, even people who want to go to a stag party in Santa Ponsa and come back? It is a recommendation and not a legal requirement?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: The legal requirement is to fill in the form, is that correct?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: As my colleague, Mr. Breslin, said in his opening statement and made clear, it is being looked at as a requirement for the Minister of Health, in co-ordination with colleagues across Government, to look at mandatory self-isolation-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: I understand they will have-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: They will have completed looking at it within a week, so we will know then whether they intend to introduce the legal requirement. Is that correct?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is it fair to say that for a person from the Republic of Ireland going on holidays and who flies out of Belfast and returns into Belfast, there is no requirement to fill in a form on arrival into the Irish State? Similarly, if one is from Northern Ireland and flies out of and returns to Dublin for one's holiday flights, there are no forms either.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is it fair to say the only place one cannot holiday, if one is Irish, is Ireland?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: The only place one cannot holiday is Ireland.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)
Michael McNamara: Are we relying on the UK to bring clarity to the situation, given the success it has enjoyed to date?