Mr Donnelly told RTÃâs Prime Time programme, he was confident the mandatory hotel quarantine was successfully bringing down Covid-19 numbers while âpicking up variant cases in the hotelâ and described the system as âvery robustâ. âI make no apologies to the commissioner, to the Italian ambassador or to anybody else for putting in place the measures that we believe, and our public health experts believe, are the right measures to keep people in this country safe,â he said. âIâm confident itâs in compliance with Irish law, with EU law, we notified the commission, and indeed EU health ministers agreed that these kind of measures could be taken.â