Speaking during a post-cabinet briefing this afternoon, Mr Coveney said that people should not come to Ireland if they cannot restrict their movements when they arrive."I don’t think we should prevent flights from landing in Ireland or ban international travel, that is not the approach we have taken," he said.
Mr Coveney said there is some evidence that some tourists in Ireland are not restricting their movements, adding that this has created a concern across the tourism industry in Ireland. These include ensuring that the passenger locator form is moved online so a person can stand over the accuracy of the information given.
"I don't think it's reasonable in the context of a pandemic that could go on for many months to say we could shut down travel completely. "People here have given up their foreign holidays abroad this year - some at a huge financial loss - and so are rightly angered at seeing tourists now arriving into Ireland unrestricted," he said.Labour’s spokesperson on Transport Duncan Smith earlier called for the Government to temporarily suspend flights from the US, and other countries with a high-level of infection, until mandatory Covid-19 testing is in place at Irish points of entry.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Stephen Kinsella said there is a "real asymmetry" between how international travellers are being treated and how individual business owners are responding. He said that 2% of cases of the virus in Ireland have come from travel, while the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development say 8% to 9% of global cases arise from travel.
Mr Kinsella said the next period is what matters and the asymmetry between advising people not to travel but allow tourists in is a difficulty.
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