Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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407. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 961 and 962 of 20 May 2020, the number of passengers who arrived here since the passenger locator forms were rolled out; the number of persons who filled them in; the number of persons who were followed up by telephone call; the number who refused to fill them in; and the number exempt in tabular form. [9619/20]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Border Management Unit Immigration Officers at Dublin Airport, on behalf of the Health Authorities, commenced recording Passenger Locator Forms on 28 April 2020. These contacts were made as part of public health passenger checks under measures related to the Covid-19 pandemic. BMU currently only collect the Passenger Locator forms for Dublin Airport. The Garda National Immigration (GNIB) manage the compliance for the other ports after which the Passenger Locator forms are forwarded to the BMU in Dublin Airport, who also carry out the follow-up calls for those ports.

Dublin Airport:

Although not all of the following information was requested it is important to provide all of the information in order that the full picture is provided in terms of the forms completed/not completed/language barrier etc. and therefore the number of calls that are required to be made. In almost all instances 100% of the calls required were made. However in the early days of the introduction of the required follow-up analysis the BMU did not reach 100% due to training of staff and implementing the new process and recording tools to support it.

Other Ports:

Forms for Other Ports are delivered to BMU at Dublin Airport for follow up action. As mentioned, BMU hold no records of the numbers of arrivals (expected forms) nor the number who refused to complete the forms for other ports. The following data includes numbers of forms received by BMU for follow-up action and of them the number who were exempt (therefore no follow-up action was required) and the number of calls made. The returns from other Ports are often inconsistent and therefore we are unable to provide data for Shannon Airport. In addition the period for each Port differs due to the logistics of the forms arriving from each location.

The passenger numbers for arrivals into Irish Airports and Seaports for May 2020, which were received from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, were provided to the Deputy in the course of my reply to Dáil Question No. 377 on 27 May 2020.