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Mandatory Hotel Quarantine

About 175 people escaped from mandatory quarantine

More than 10,000 people stayed for ten days in designated hotels, with a Covid-19 positivity rate of 5.7 per cent, before the system was halted last week
  • Michael Brennan
  • October 3, 2021

Comment: Hope at last for tourism industry which still needs ongoing support

Micheál Martin’s announcement was welcome but questions remain, such as how long will Mandatory Hotel Quarantine be kept in place and is there a successor to the flop that was the Stay and Spend Scheme?
  • Eoghan O'Mara Walsh
  • May 31, 2021

Comment: Our urgent choice between living with or without new Covid-19 variants

Mandatory hotel quarantine needs to be extended to all countries with ongoing transmission, which means everywhere for now
  • Gerry Killeen
  • May 20, 2021

No new ‘variants of concern’ in Ireland since introduction of hotel quarantine

Despite pressure from lobby groups to relax the mandatory hotel quarantine requirements, public health figures are happy that the measures to reduce Covid infections are working well
  • Rachel Lavin,
  • Aaron Rogan,
  • Michael Brennanand
  • Lorcan Allen
  • May 9, 2021

Irish airlines warn job cuts and route closures are coming without plan for summer restart

Ryanair says it may have to deploy aircraft elsewhere in Europe as Aer Lingus warns it could need state support to plug financial hole
  • Lorcan Allenand
  • Aaron Rogan
  • May 9, 2021

Pay cuts, job losses or both needed at Aer Lingus, says chief executive

Lynne Embleton says restructuring is necessary to ensure the short-term survival of the airline
  • Lorcan Allen
  • May 7, 2021

How to manage: What happens if employees want to take foreign holidays?

Since existing legislation does not cover Covid-19 travel restrictions and mandatory quarantine, employers and staff need to work together to address concerns
  • Alan Hickey
  • May 2, 2021

Airport boss says state must act urgently to mitigate damage dealt by Covid

DAA chief executive Dalton Philips said the government must support the restarting of air travel and an exit from mandatory hotel quarantine
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • May 2, 2021

Exemption to hotel quarantine sought for ‘essential’ engineers by business groups

Representatives of the pharma, medtech and dairy sectors have met with Nphet and the HSE to request changes to the mandatory hotel quarantining system
  • Lorcan Allen
  • April 18, 2021

Tony O’Brien: Our quarantine approach seems designed with failure in mind

The government needs to follow Britain’s example on border health measures, and to face down disgruntled EU states
  • Tony O'Brien
  • April 18, 2021

European Commission has no objection to Ireland’s quarantine list extension

Ireland has added four more countries – France, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg – to the list of countries from which travellers must book into a hotel for a period of 12 days
  • Aiden Corkery
  • April 11, 2021

Donnelly to insist on hotel quarantine list changes despite FG opposition

Minister for Health fears new variants of Covid-19 could threaten vaccination rollout as hotel group requested to increase capacity
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 4, 2021

Niall Conroy: Forget diplomacy, it’s time to strong-arm the virus

Mandatory hotel quarantine is an essential pillar of Covid-19 prevention, but our diluted attempt at it is like using half an umbrella in a monsoon
  • Niall Conroy
  • March 28, 2021

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