Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 29 April 2021
129. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons whose origin country of travel was India that arrived into Ireland in January, February, March and to 25 March 2021, in tabular form. [22471/21]
Amharc ar fhreagraAll passengers arriving into the state are required to complete a COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form (PLF) in accordance with SI 45/2021. There are limited exemptions from this requirement, as set out in the regulations, such as for international transport workers or for diplomats. The Passenger Locator Form is used to support a system of engagements with arriving passengers including the targeting of public health messaging by SMS and may be used for contact tracing.
It should be noted that PLF data does not constitute formal arrival data into the state, due to the different intended purpose for the system and also the number of exempted persons as set out above. In addition, some passengers may complete a PLF in advance but be unable to travel as intended, and the data below may include some duplicates for certain travellers. Passengers may have completed a PLF and continued their journey without staying overnight in the state or having transiting onto Northern Ireland.
The data below is an indicative number of passengers who stated India as either their country of departure or country visited in the previous 14 days from 6 February to 21 April, within the data that is available to the Department.
150,046 Passenger Locator Forms were completed during this period from all countries of departure for relevant travellers. 3.6% of the Passenger Locator Forms indicated India in their travel history.
The data in the table below includes the number of accompanying children under 16 declared on the PLF. No further information is recorded on passengers under 16 years of age.
The figures below are subject to change due to ongoing data cleansing e.g. duplication where passengers completed the PLF twice.
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6 - 28 February |
1 - 31 March |
1 - 21 April |
Total |
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1,896 |
2,062 |
1,727 |
5,685 |
