{"id":1087,"date":"2020-07-24T12:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ministers-play-pass-the-parcel-on-passenger-follow-ups\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T12:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:36:52","slug":"ministers-play-pass-the-parcel-on-passenger-follow-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/ministers-play-pass-the-parcel-on-passenger-follow-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers play \u2018pass the parcel\u2019 on passenger follow ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers\u2019 game of \u2018pass the parcel\u2019 over responsibility for follow up calls to incoming passengers is putting the country at risk of further Covid-19 clusters, according to R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>During health questions in today\u2019s D\u00e1il, Deputy Shortall said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is absolutely indefensible that only 3.5% of incoming passengers through Dublin Airport are actually receiving and answering follow up calls. In a D\u00e1il reply to me this week, the Minister for Justice said the responsibility for passenger follow up falls to the Minister for Health, yet the Minister for Health today stated that it\u2019s the responsibility of the Minister for Transport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers coming into Ireland\u2019s airports are increasing rapidly, and it\u2019s important that there is absolute clarity about which department and Minister is responsible for implementing adequate controls. Playing \u2018pass the parcel\u2019 and suggesting that a handover is happening in the future is simply not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe priority has to be to open our schools and domestic business, and these delays and shirking of responsibility are putting public health and our recovery in jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 24, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers\u2019 game of \u2018pass the parcel\u2019 over responsibility for follow up calls to incoming passengers is putting the country at risk of further Covid-19 clusters, according to R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats. During health questions in today\u2019s D\u00e1il, Deputy Shortall said: \u201cIt is absolutely indefensible that only 3.5% of incoming passengers through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-roisin-shortall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ministers play \u2018pass the parcel\u2019 on passenger follow ups - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ministers-play-pass-the-parcel-on-passenger-follow-ups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ministers play \u2018pass the parcel\u2019 on passenger follow ups - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ministers\u2019 game of \u2018pass the parcel\u2019 over responsibility for follow up calls to incoming passengers is putting the country at risk of further Covid-19 clusters, according to R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats. 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