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Wednesday 21 October 2020
The new guidelines were agreed at a meeting in Luxembourg today.
The updated list comes into effect from today.
Ireland wants to ‘align’ with the plans but may take some time to be fully on board.
Ireland agreed in principle last month to sign up to the EU system.
There were just four countries left on the list last week.
Eamon Ryan tol the Oireachtas Transport Committee that the Green LIst was ‘not working’.
Strict new coronavirus measures are now in effect – here’s what they mean for you.
Eamon Ryan said that the government was also looking at the issue of airport testing.
The judge found that the government acted lawfully in providing travel advice and public health advice in respect of the pandemic.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar previously said he was concerned by how well smaller airports could bounce back after Covid-19.
The government has pledged to update the Green List on a weekly basis.
The general advice is still to avoid non-essential travel abroad.
Similar to the travel advice throughout the pandemic – it is not a criminal offence to travel beyond the county border or travel abroad.
The Department of Foreign Affairs provided an update on the new Green List countries this afternoon.
The government have moved to clarify their travel policy.
The government provided details on the new arrangements for air travel at a press conference today.
The detailed plan is expected to set out how we’ll proceed over the winter and into next spring.
“No one in Ireland has died of Covid in the last 14 days,” Leo Varadkar said today.
Toll booths would be installed as part of the new system, with a free option available in one of the long-term car parks.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said there will be no changes to the list until a new roadmap is published.
Irishman William Campbell lives in Berlin and says despite how we hold up the German housing market as one of the best, it has developed some serious flaws.
Ministers are concerned Ireland has the most restrictive travel rules in Europe in the run up to Christmas.
Varadkar said he wouldn’t be surprised if Ireland loses the Trade Commissioner role.
CSO data shows that travel in July was still significantly lower than in 2019.
Jane Hackett of the Green-Schools Travel Programme is urging parents to avoid slipping back to the overuse of the car because of concerns over Covid-19.
It’s a legal requirement for people arriving in Ireland from overseas to complete a Covid-19 passenger locator form.
Residents in the three counties have been told they should not leave unless it is essential travel.
The country has seen a recent spike in Covid-19 cases.
Options from the Department of Health will be finalised “as soon as possible”.
The review found detection rates are low due to cases that do not present with a fever and those who are infectious before showing symptoms.
Due to the overlap in symptoms between flu and Covid-19, testing capacity must be able to meet demand, finds report.
Greenland or San Marino?
The UK’s biggest operator will close 166 shops due to the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The British prime minister defended his government’s decision to impose restrictions on those returning from Spain.
Passenger journeys on rail services dropped to a low of 24,000 a week at the start of April.
Arrivals to Ireland from the US have been lower than from most Western European countries.
The Tánaiste said that people can now travel to the green list countries for non-essential reasons.
Only half of the calls made were answered.
Actress and wellness advocate Leigh Arnold and her husband run a wellness retreat in Ibiza. She set up a free online wellness portal for everyone in lockdown.
These are part of new measures brought in with the publication of Ireland’s ‘green list’.
Some island nations are doing comparatively well in suppressing the virus.
THE IRISH FARMERS Association has urged Irish MEPs to vote to ban words traditionally linked to meat products from being used on vegetarian alternatives.
The European Parliament is to vote this week on the terminology used for plant-based meat and dairy substitutes.
Amendments put forward would restrict the naming of such products so that they could not use terms normally associated with meat products.
One amendment would curtail the use of terms such as ‘steak’, ‘sausage’, ‘escalope’, ‘burger’ or ‘hamburger’ on products that do not exclusively contain meat.
The IFA has written to MEPs urging them to accept both amendments to protect Irish consumers and the agricultural industry here.
IFA President Tim Cullinan said yesterday that dairy products or plant-based meat branded with ‘real’ meat descriptions is “deliberately misleading to our consumers and undermines our industry.”
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