Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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688. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding received to date from the European Commission to provide free Covid-19 testing as part of the roll-out of the EU digital Covid certificate; the number of these free tests which have been made available to date and the locations of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43646/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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There is no charge for a Digital Covid Certificate (DCC). Where people choose to have a Covid test for the purposes of travel - and thus receive a DCC as evidence of that test - they must go to a private test provider. As Covid-19 tests for travel are not provided by the state, Ireland has therefore not claimed funding for free Covid-19 testing as part of the rollout of EU DCC.