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Travel to Ireland from Britain will be “much easier” from July 19th as people who have been fully vaccinated will not have to quarantine at home, Transport Minister Eamon Ryan has said.
The date coincides with the planned implementation of the EU’s Digital Covid Certificate to allow travel within the EU for people who have been fully vaccinated, have recovered from Covid-19 within six months or have a negative test result prior to their trip.
Since the UK has left the EU it is not using the same certificate.
However, Mr Ryan said that the rules for people travelling here from Britain will be eased on July 19th as well.
At present most people travelling from the UK have to undertake to spend 14-days quarantining at an address they specify on a passenger locator form.
In remarks reported by RTÉ News Mr Ryan said that from July 19th vaccinated people who travel here form the UK won’t have to quarantine.
He said: “for others who don’t have the vaccination they will have to continue to abide by the home quarantine and we will continue to review that.”
Mr Ryan added: “We did strengthen regulations in recent weeks because of concern about the Delta variant.
“Because that’s here now as well as in the UK it’s not as significant.
“That was done to try and delay and hold back the arrival of the Delta variant here.
“So I think travel with the UK will become much easier particularly for those who are vaccinated from the 19th,” he added.
Mr Ryan said he’s “confident” the system will be in place for the operation of the EU’s Digital Covid Certs and “working well” by July 19th.
He was speaking at the launch of a new high-powered electric car charger on the M7 motorway which is part of a €20 million investment in car charging infrastructure by the Government and the ESB.
Mr Ryan said six minutes use of the machine is enough for a car to be charged for 100km worth of travel.
There is a target of having more than 900,000 electric cars on the road by 2030 as part of the Government’s efforts to tackle climate change.
Mr Ryan insisted that meeting that target is “absolutely doable” as he said that electric cars are cleaner, cheaper and easier to maintain than those with combustion engines.