The Ryanair boss claims there was chaos at Dublin Airport yesterday over the use of the EU Digital Covid cert.
Ireland is the only country in the EU where it's not up and running, with the airline calling on the Transport Minister to switch it on, so other fully vaccinated Europeans can travel here.
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary says Ireland is 'Paddy last' when it comes to enabling European travel:
"And yesterday we had a whole slew of cases at Dublin Airport, where fully vaccinated Belgian, Italian and German citizens arrived up with their QR code and their Digital Covid Cert, only to be threatened with both mandatory hotel quarantine by the border force who didn't know what the QR code was. We had chaos at the airport yesterday".
The Department of Justice has dismissed Ryanair's criticism, saying officers at the Border Management Unit are fully aware of what the EU Digital Covid Certificate looks like.
It says while the Department does not comment on any individual cases, if anyone was stopped who was in possession of a Digital Covid Cert, they may have been unable to provide evidence they also had a negative PCR test administered, within 72 hours of their arrival in Ireland.
