Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 June 2020
396. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health if a person who works in the UK in the offshore wind sector and comes over and back from the UK every four weeks or so would be required to isolate each time that he or she travels. [12348/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraAs the number of indigenous cases here declines and Ireland eases restrictions, the relative importance of the risk of importation of cases from overseas increases.
The public health advice for passengers arriving into the State from overseas is to self-isolate for 14 days. Self-isolation is not a legal requirement of persons arriving to the State from overseas. However, I would ask that all persons arriving into the State follow this advice, and indeed all public health advice, as closely as they can. Persons arriving from Northern Ireland, international transport workers, including airline and maritime workers, and supply chain workers are not asked to self-isolate.
Information for those who are self-isolating and for people living with those who are self-isolating is published by the HSE on www.hse.ie. Information resources on self-isolation are also available on the website of the HSPC, and these have been translated into a number of languages.
My Department engages directly by email with families and businesses who have queries about public health advice.
