Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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770. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the existing limitations on the Covid-19 follow-up of passengers from Northern Ireland landing at Dublin Airport in terms of the passenger locator form or other; the correspondence he has received from his ministerial counterpart in the Northern Ireland Assembly and his response to same; if issues of data sharing have been resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40435/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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In October, the Irish Government adopted the EU “traffic lights” approach to intra EU travel and has taken decisions on what public health measures will apply to international arrivals. All passengers continue to be legally required to complete a COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form. With regards to sharing passenger locator data with counterparts in Northern Ireland, I am supportive of work towards finding an appropriate legal and data protection structure to facilitate this and officials from my Department are engaged with NI counterparts on the matter. I have also discussed this bilaterally with Minister Swann. North South cooperation on international travel is continuing. Notably, the two jurisdictions recently cooperated on engagements with passenger arrivals from Denmark in the context of the outbreak on mink farms in that country.