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THE GOVERNMENT WILL have a plan on international travel ready for 13 October, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has said.
Speaking on RTÉ One’s The Week in Politics programme, the transport minister confirmed that the plan will be published in the coming weeks.
International travel has been a difficult issue for the government, which has faced questions about the status of the Green List and whether it would be aligning with the approach taken by the EU.
Last month, the EU announced a plan that would introduce a traffic light system that would create a common criteria and thresholds for EU member states for deciding when travel restrictions should be introduced.
The plan is set to come into effect this month.
Today, Ryan confirmed that the Irish government’s plan – set to align with that of the EU - should be finalised by 13 October.
“We have to do it in that time frame,” Ryan said.
He also said that he would be meeting with health and transport officials tomorrow to discuss the system of Covid-19 testing in airports.
“We have to be careful we don’t take testing capacity from the health system but still have, like Germany, the capability of including testing as part of our way of monitoring aviation,” Ryan said.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly previously confirmed that randomised testing is to be rolled out as part of a suite of measures at the airports.
“It is not our objective to test 30%, 40% or 50%. It is not a mass testing measure. It is part of one of the measures that we are bringing in,” he said.
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from Trump’s America stabbing them in the back, to the Turks constantly on their back and now the Iranians , the poor Kurds get an awful time
@Bala mc blaha: Sadly they’ve been getting it since 1916, The Brits and French forgot to give them their own country when they divided the Ottoman empire between them.
Brave Women of Iran and elsewhere often ignored by the western media because they are not part of groups like BLM or part of the Woke agenda This is placing your life on the line for freedom not gluing yourself to a Road or Railing so you can receive Media coverage for you cause.
Where Is whataboutery Wallace and Daly?
@Stephen Gill: I know where they are. They’re living in your head rent free.
@Tom Jacob: Oh! A comment from a wonderful faceless empty head. Out from under the bridge.
@Stephen Gill: Did you give Wallace heat allowance while he’s living in your head?
@Tom Jacob: Since you don’t mention Clare you must be Micks latest childish doe eyed groupie, getting all upset about me mentioning his whataboutery nonsense. You have aptly demonstrated that you are really the only one obsessed by him. The next time you make an intelligent observation it will be your first. Now jog on.
Evil evil regime that Islamic Republic!
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