Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent)
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293. To ask the Minister for Health if, arising from the recommendation on a co-ordinated approach to the restriction of free movement in response to the Covid-19 pandemic arising from the European Council meeting of 13 October 2020, Ireland will provide data to the European Centre for Disease Control on specific areas or regions on the State in respect of the extent to which they are affected by Covid-19, rather than only in respect of the entire territory of the State. [37516/20]

Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent)
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294. To ask the Minister for Health the specific areas or regions of the State in respect Ireland will provide data to the European Centre for Disease Control to give effect to the recommendation on a co-ordinated approach to the restriction of free movement in response to the Covid-19 pandemic arising from the European Council meeting of 13 October 2020 that member states apply those restrictions to persons coming from specific areas or regions of the State particularly affected rather than to the entire territory of Ireland. [37517/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 293 and 294 together.

Ireland provides data to the ECDC based on NUTS regions. For the purpose of mapping in the context of EU Council Recommendation 2020/1475, the ECDC publishes data by NUTS2 regions for Ireland.

There are three NUTS2 regions in Ireland, these being Northern and Western, Southern, Eastern and Midland.  The boundaries of NUTS2 regions align with both NUTS3 regions and county boundaries, shown in the attached table.