To ask the Minister for Transport the number of persons who have completed a PCR test at each airport and port here in each of the past five months. Question Number: 93 Question Reference: 2561/21 The detailed monthly figures requested by the Deputy have been requested from the PLF contact centre and this will be provided to the Deputy once available The PLF allows for targeted public health messaging and assists contact tracing purposes. 1.3 million public health SMS messages approximately were issued between 26th August to 7thJanuary.įrom the outset of the pandemic, Ireland’s approach to international travel has been centred on advisory public health measures with the exception of the PLF, which has been a mandatory requirement for arriving passengers to complete. This is done via interactive SMS with follow up phone calls as appropriate.
Passengers are contacted to verify the place of address provided on the form. The PLF is used to support an enhanced system of engagements with arriving passengers including the targeting of public health messages via SMS. A call centre was set up to manage the PLF data.ĥ08,000 passengers who completed electronic PLF’s and those who completed a valid paper version of the form have all been contacted and have received public health messages. There have been approximately 712,000 Passenger Locator Forms completed by passengers arriving into Ireland since the electronic PLF was introduced on 26th August 2020 to 7th January. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have travelled to Ireland by air and by sea for each of the past five months the number who filled a passenger locator form in each of the past five months the number who completed a passenger locator form that were contacted within 14 days for each of the past five months and the number who travelled here who can be confirmed were adhering 100% to self-isolation in each of the past five months. Anything else will leave Ireland exposed again. We need to test and quarantine all passengers arriving in Ireland. There is no doubt in my mind that these downfalls in terms of testing and tracing have lead to more transmission and more deaths. At the start of the pandemic, they flat out refused to ban flights from northern Italy. I have been shocked at the government’s reluctance to protect our ports and airports. We in Aontú have been calling for more testing, tracing and quarantine for passengers arriving into Ireland, since the very start of the pandemic.
As of 12th January, a total of 2,600 Covid tests had been carried out at Shannon Airport since the start of the pandemic!" His response is also frightening - in the same time period which saw 712,000 passengers fill out locator forms, a mere 38,400 Covid-19 tests were booked in Dublin and Cork airports. Given that 63% of all Covid Cases in the state are now the British Variant which arrived here during this time period I have no doubt that the lax attitude of this government to international travel has led directly to the widescale damage to health and society”.ĭeputy Tóibín continued: "I recently asked the Minister for Transport if he could tell me how many tests had been conducted at airports.
This means 204,000 people who arrived on our shores have not been followed up with. The Minister has also revealed to me that a mere 508,000 of them have been contacted either by way of phonecall or text message. This means that at least 712,000 people have entered our country in the past few months. "The Minister for Health has revealed to me, following a written question, that between 26th August 2020 and 7th January 2021, some 712,000 passenger locator forms have been completed. Deputy Tóibín was speaking after data released to him revealed that hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in our airports since August went untested and were not followed up withDeputy Tóibín said: 200,000 Travellers in 5 months Who Filled in a Passenger Locator Form not Followed up by the State - Tóibín Note.Īontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has expressed his anger at what he called the "slip shod attitude of the government to international travel, testing and tracing at our airports.
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