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TRANSPORT MINISTER EAMON Ryan has said the government expects to “stick with the plan” to roll out the EU’s Digital Green Cert from 19 July and open up foreign travel.
At present, travel is only permitted for essential reasons but that is due to change next month with Ireland also adopting the EU Digital Covid Certificate (Green Cert).
Ireland is scheduled to begin using the system from 19 July, a number of weeks after it becomes available to EU member states on 1 July.
The Green Cert system will allow EU citizens to travel to other member states if they can prove one or more of three things: they have been vaccinated against Covid-19, they have received a recent negative test result or they have recovered from Covid-19 within the past six months.
Ireland is set to adopt each element of this approach with Ryan saying today that it is best to follow a “European approach”.
This is despite Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan recently stating a preference for people waiting until they are fully vaccinated to travel.
“We’re part of a European Union, and we’ve agreed that we’re best following this in a European Union approach,” he said.
Speaking yesterday, Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson said that the government should allow vaccinated people travel freely ahead of 19 July, telling RTÉ’s Drivetime that “there is no medical reason to stop them from travelling”.
Ryan said today that the government was not going to take this approach and will introduce the three Green Cert measures together.
“The plan is working, so I don’t think we should change it for an immediate solution that we’d have to change again on the 19 July so we’re gonna stick with it, stick with the plan,” he said.
NPHET
NPHET is due to give advice to the government next Wednesday on its view on the next period of Ireland’s reopening with the government set to consider that the following day.
Much of the advice is expected to focus on the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19, which Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said was a “big concern”.
Asked today whether the government would go against NPHET if it advised that only vaccinated people should travel, Ryan said the government will consider the advice but also consider other factors.
We’ll obviously listen to NPHET, we’ll listen to ECDC as well. But there is strength in following a common approach, travel involves another jurisdiction on every occasion when you’re leaving the country and doing it in a uniform, common approach makes real sense. It makes it predictable, it’s standardised.
Ryan added that NPHET’s advice next week will likely focus more on plans for the easing of restrictions on 5 July, which is scheduled to include to return of indoor hospitality.
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There is nothing more demoralizing than being bullied or intimidated in the workplace.
You want to give 100% to the customer/company and enjoy your job.
But it only takes 1 or 2 sad individuals to destroy any good feelings you have.
It saps your self confidence and ability to give the customer the service they deserve.
It isn’t physical intimidation (these bullies are far too scared to do that) .
It’s the whisper campaigns , doing things they know annoys you, they turn other workers against you and basically make life miserable.
Sad little individuals.
I left a job I truly loved 10 years ago and still regret it.
@Justice Mickey: Same thing happened to me.HR didnt want to know.Ended up having to quit.Found out later he had been asked to leave his previous job for the same thing.Nasty piece of work.
@Trish O’Leary-Dunne: I’ve see it happen. Nasty pieces of work, like you, I reported it in writing, & faced the bully nose to nose, he backed down and moved on to other softer touches, & like you most of these people, packed up & moved on. The Employer lost some fantastic people, & another loser is the Employer.
Moral in my storey is, stand up to the B’ast4rds, they cant handle it when someone puts it up to them. I know that shouldn’t be the way, but in life you gotta do what you gotta do?
@Trish O’Leary-Dunne:
So sorry to read that Trish and hopefully you are in a better place mentally and physically.
Happy New year to you.
@Dom Layzell:
HR are totally useless and toothless, I confronted the ring leader and went Nose to Nose and he was scared shitless but it reverted back once he had his sleveen devious buddies behind him.
Then he made sure there would never be another opportunity.
Bullies are nothing but sad little cowards whit zero personalities or social skills.
They think that by belittling someone they are seen as “The big man/woman”.
I would hate to be in their shoes and be know as a pure looser and be the laughing stock.
In most cases these people turn into miserable old and unwanted people that will die alone and nobody will care.
@Justice Mickey: you’re wrong – it’s bad enough being subjected to bullying but what is even worse is when you bring the matter to the attention of your HR Department as advised & HR then proceeds to ignore their own policies and timelines continuously for months/years on end, while you continue to have to work with the person who bullies you…. that is demoralising & that is what currently goes on in some civil/public service jobs
@Justice Mickey: Thank you.I ended up in a job i love with amazing people so he did me a favour in the end!
@Justice Mickey: HR are there to protect the company, not the employees. Don’t listen to anyone in HR trying to tell you otherwise.
Bullying is in every workplace. People with comments, snide remarks, looks, judging, deliberately leaving people out from a conversation or not inviting them to lunch etc. Then these bullies play the victim when a complaint is made, that’s all bullying if you make a person feel uncomfortable. It says so much about the person /people doing it. Some people can make others feel physically sick about going in to work because of the way they are treated and it makes me so mad. But these bullies have other issues you have to remember this.
Quite a misleading headline, at odds with the statistics presented in the body.
11 complaints in 11 months for a force of 14000. Well done to the Gardai. They seem to be well on top of the problem.
Bullying costs lives. It’s incalculable how much decent man and woman hours have been lost to the public, all around the country, through incompetent middle and senior management. Just look at the incompetence of senior management that was exposed through the Maurice McCabe affair. Just look at what came out.
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