Travel for Irish people to countries where Covid-19 has been successfully supressed will return in a number of weeks, Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys has said.
Minister Humphreys told RTÉ's Morning Ireland that the Government plans to reintroduce air travel through "airbridges", which will allow travel to countries where the curve has been "flattened" to the same degree as it has here.
She said she would not encourage people to book holidays yet, but she said plans are in place and will be activated as soon as it is safe to do so.
She said it is a challenging time for everyone and the "virus has no mercy" but Ireland is behind other countries "at the stage we are at" and this is why we are slower to ease