The Government will have a limited EU digital green certificate for travel that will be what one senior minister called, ‘An Irish solution to an Irish problem’.
Frantic efforts across several Government departments have still failed to come up with a foolproof validation of PCR tests.
Ministers this weekend revealed a ‘form’ of the EU digital cert will be issued to people.
Despite this, the Government’s advisory against non-essential travel for the unvaccinated will remain in force after July 19.
A Cabinet source said: ‘There is a lot of talk about us being legally required under EU law to introduce the digital green certificate for travel, but what they fail to understand is that each state can choose the detail of our certs.
‘So we don’t have a system to independently and categorically certify negative PCR or antigen tests.’
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The return of non-essential travel will resume, despite a number of Government sources saying they expect daily COVID cases to reach 1,000 by the end of this month.
A source on the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) this weekend said the body will continue to advise against non-essential travel, despite the introduction of the EU digital cert.
The source said: ‘Our public stance and our continuing private guidance to the Government is that we advise against all nonessential travel except for those who are fully vaccinated or have recovered from Covid in the last six months.’
And the Government will stand by NPHET’s advice, despite the introduction of the travel pass, and urge those who have not been vaccinated not to travel. Regardless, if travellers…