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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is not too long.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Perhaps Ms Buckley will respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: How many extra staff are available? Several issues will arise. The first one is detection. Cases are coming from the UK. Has the level of checks increased? How many extra staff have been made available? We do not want another situation to arise where people queue for hours to get home, as occurred in Dublin Airport last August. There will be more people coming into Ireland approaching...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Point taken.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: An extra 40 staff have been added to how many existing staff? How many staff are there in total?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Have extra staff been taken on in the last 48 hours?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Have any extra staff been taken on since the new Covid testing requirements came in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Buckley will appreciate that pressure will mount coming up to Christmas. If there is a need to take on more staff, is there capacity to do so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are any airlines refusing to do these checks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: To whom is the Deputy directing his question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: To clarify, this measure was supposed to come in last Friday at midnight. When did the Department make the decision to defer it to Sunday? When did it inform the airlines about that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What time was the measure supposed to be introduced on that Friday?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. Why was that left so late? People would have got PCR and antigen tests and had that cost over the previous 72 hours in the case of PCR tests and 48 hours for the antigen tests. Why was this left so late into Thursday evening?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was the decision to defer this to Sunday from the Department of Transport or the Department of Health? Did it come from the Departments dealing with foreign affairs or justice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: From the Department of Health's perspective, what set of circumstances would there have to be for the restrictions introduced on Sunday relating to antigen and PCR testing to be relaxed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Out of 8,000 people, since some 10% were checked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: To clarify, there were 80,000 passengers travelling through Dublin Airport in the past three days and 8,000 were checked, representing 10%, and 100 of those were found not to be in compliance. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: On every flight that comes in, 10% of passengers are checked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What reason did the airlines give for these passengers getting through? Of this 100, 95 had no PCR test or antigen test of any description. What reason did the airlines give?