Dr Gabriel Scally calls for half a quarantine system to be rolled out in full to save lives It is the logical and in fact the only sensible thing to do
17:10, 7 APR 2021
Dr. Gabriel Scally, at the publication of his final report of the scoping inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme. The report contains 50 recommendations following the CervicalCheck cancer scandal. Photograph: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie
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There is no political row between Government departments over the planned extension of mandatory hotel quarantine, according to the Green Party leader.
Last week, 26 new countries and states were
added to the quarantine list; however, the Government decided not to include France, Germany, Italy or the US.
Health officials had originally recommended adding 43 countries to the list; however, the Government delayed its decision on 17 of them after both the Attorney General and Foreign Affairs Minister Children arrive at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry, Dublin on the first day of the new hotel quarantine system, 26-03-2021. Image: Leon Farrell/RollingNews
Fianna Fáil ministers are being urged to fight back against Fine Gael’s “ideological” opposition to imposing hotel quarantining rules on more EU countries and the US.
Fianna Fáil backbench TD Paul McAuliffe also suggested Fine Gael’s reluctance to add more countries to the list may be down to the “demographics of their constituencies”.
“There’s not many people in my constituency who are going on holidays in the South of France or who have kids studying in Erasmus programmes in Central Europe maybe that’s the case in Fine Gael constituencies but this type of talk is alienating most people living under lockdown for the best part of a year,” he told Independent.ie