“The change is aimed to facilitate this travel and make the completion of the COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form easier for those who need to travel. The Health Minister said the form is to be used to ‘facilitate a system of follow up checks to make sure the details entered are correct’. Passengers arriving from this date can complete form in advance of their arrival online. Passengers arriving to Ireland on, or after, Wednesday 26 August will be able to complete the COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form online. The Passenger Locator Form given out at Dublin Airport in August 2020 (Pic: M Wozniak for InsideIreland.ie) The current Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly announced on 22 August that the current COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form would move to an online process on Wednesday 26 August. Passenger Locator form sign in Dublin Airport (Pic: M Wozniak for InsideIreland.ie)Īccording to the Department of Health, the Public Health Passenger Locator Form is used to facilitate a system of follow up checks to make sure people who travel to the country are staying where they said that they would. It is a legal requirement for passengers arriving in Ireland from overseas to complete a COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form. Then then Minister for Health Simon Harris confirmed on 22 May that it will be obligatory for passengers arriving from overseas to complete a COVID-19 Public Health Passenger Locator Form. The Department of Justice confirmed that over 670 passengers who arrived at Dublin Airport over a six-day period did not complete the form at all. Reports on 07 May suggested that more than a third of passengers arriving at Dublin Airport and a quarter of those coming into Dublin Port who were asked to self-isolate, did not respond to follow up check calls.įianna Fáil Spokesperson on Justice and Equality, Jim O’ Callaghan said that was ‘unacceptable’. Passengers from any other location not on this list are asked to restrict their movements for 14 days.
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