Ireland has been criticised for its "particularly repressive" mandatory hotel quarantine regime by Willie Walsh, the director general of the International Air Transport Association.
Mr Walsh, a former CEO of IAG, which owns Aer Lingus and British Airways, said the State's restrictions were "particulary dangerous for a country like Ireland.
The message is we don't want people travelling to the country." "Freedom of movement is a fundamental principal of the EU. That is what has upset me most." Mr Walsh said Ireland had mandatory hotel quarantine for 70 countries. "Nobody travelling into the UK from Belgium tested positive yet you are locking them up," he said.