Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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862. To ask the Minister for Health the level of compliance in filling out the passenger locator forms on a weekly basis from 4 January 2021; 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. [5883/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The following table outlines the number of passenger locator forms completed between 4^thof January and 28^thof January 2021, inclusive. Where a passenger cannot be reached at first, further call attempts may be made. Invalid paper passenger locator forms may have illegible information including phone numbers or other essential information that is required. The paper passenger locator form has been updated to an OCR form to improve legibility.  Passengers may have completed a passenger locator form and not travelled.

Efforts continue to promote the use of the electronic passenger locator form. 

There have been no incidences of non-compliance notified to An Garda Síochána between 4^thof January and 28^thof January 2021, inclusive.

Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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863. To ask the Minister for Health the number of follow-up calls made to incoming passengers on a weekly basis since 4 January 2021; and the number of calls which were successfully answered on a weekly basis, in tabular form. [5884/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Passengers who completed a passenger locator form and do not claim an exemption are followed up and contacted by text to confirm their address.

Where a person has not responded to the address verification text, they will be called to verify their place of address. If they are not available at the first call, further attempts will be made to contact each passenger who is in scope for follow up calls. From the information provided 86% of passengers requested to do so confirmed their place of residence.

Numbers of follow up calls made to passengers