Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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995. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty faced by Irish citizens who are abroad in obtaining a Covid-19 recovery certificate when they have tested positive while away; and if a plan is in place to ensure these persons can fly home with this certificate as proof of their recovery. [41511/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Travellers to Ireland are required to present proof of vaccination, proof of recovery or a relevant test result as evidence of their health status. A relevant test result is a negative RT-PCR test result based on a sample taken within 72 hours of arrival to Ireland or a positive RT-PCR COVID-19 test result taken at between 11 days and 180 days prior to arrival. Depending on the individual's travel history, they may be required to quarantine on arrival. Full details of measures applying when travelling to Ireland are published at www.gov.ie/en/publication/77952-government-advice-on-international-travel/.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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996. To ask the Minister for Health when EU digital Covid-19 certificates will issue in the case of persons (details supplied) whose certificates are required for travel to Malta; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41512/21]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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1019. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 vaccine certificate will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41561/21]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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1020. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 vaccine certificates will issue to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41562/21]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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1024. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be offered to persons (details supplied) on the issuing of the EU digital Covid-19 certificate in time for travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41581/21]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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1049. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance can be offered to a person (details supplied) to issue the EU digital Covid-19 certificate in time for travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41659/21]

Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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1401. To ask the Minister for Health the status of three Covid-19 digital certificates (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42821/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 996, 1019, 1020, 1024, 1049 and 1401 together.

Over 3.3m Digital COVID Certificates have been issued via post and email from July 12th and remaining certificates are being processed for issue.

There are a small percentage of the overall number of applicants who have yet to receive their Digital COVID Certificate for vaccination. This unfortunately delay relates to a number of factors, including cases quality of data is insufficient or where GPs are uploading the remaining data to the system. Less than 0.9 % of all those vaccinated to-date are experiencing delays for these reasons.

To support the roll-out of Government policy, a helpline through the DCC Call-Center was set up to allow those members of the public who are travelling to deal directly with queries relating to the Digital COVID Certificate from Monday 19th of July 2021. The call centre has also since introduced new additional service channels. A new online form to request Recovery certificates for eligible persons was released on 22 July. Following this a portal allowing for Vaccine Certificate Request, Vaccine Certificate Details Update and a Vaccine Status portal were launched on the 30th July. All persons who have yet to receive a Digital COVID Certificate following a full course of vaccination are encouraged to make use of these points of contact to complete or correct their dataset in the system.