Written answers
Thursday, 14 January 2021
Department of Health
Covid-19 Pandemic
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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230. To ask the Minister for Health the level of compliance in filling out the passenger locator forms on a weekly basis from 7 December 2020; the number of forms which were correctly and incorrectly completed on a weekly basis, respectively; and the number of persons that refused to fill out the form on a weekly basis in tabular form. [2113/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The table below outlines the number of passenger locator forms completed between 7th December and 3rd January 2021.
Week commencing | Number of completed Passenger Locator Form’s | Number of valid Passenger Locator Forms | Number of invalid/illegible Passenger Locator Forms |
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7th December | 32,826 | 28,349 | 3,312 |
14th December | 58,901 | 51,093 | 6,352 |
21st December | 29,257 | 26,867 | 2,138 |
28th December | 32,348 | 29,538 | 2,508 |
Invalid paper forms may have illegible information including phone numbers or other essential information that is unclear and is required for follow-up. The paper form has been updated to an OCR form to improve legibility. Efforts continue to promote the use of the online form.
There has been one incidence of non-compliance which was notified to the Garda National Immigration Board between 7th December 2020 and 3rdof January 2021.
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of follow-up calls made to incoming passengers on a weekly basis since 7 December 2020; and the number of calls which were successfully answered on a weekly basis in tabular form. [2114/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The following table provides the total number of calls and the total number of successful calls made to incoming passengers on a weekly basis from 7thof December 2020 to 3rdof January 2021 inclusive. Where a passenger cannot be reached at first, further call attempts may be made.
Numbers of follow up calls made to passengers
Week commencing | Number of follow up calls made to passengers | Number of successful follow up calls to passengers |
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7th December | 9,253 | 3,675 |
14th December | 9,375 | 4,041 |
21st December | 4,144 | 2,530 |
28th December | 5,769 | 2,992 |
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