The Taoiseach has confirmed that Ireland will join the EU's digital green passport system, opening up the prospect of foreign travel by the end of the summer.
Speaking this afternoon in Cork, Micheál Martin said "possibilities" may open for people to travel between EU member states at that stage, once they have been vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19 and can produce the results of a PCR test to confirm they are free of the virus.
He said there is a working timeframe of between June and the end of July or the beginning of August to have an EU digital green passport in operation between member states. "Europe is pressing ahead with it in terms of the technology side of it," Micheál Martin said. "There will be more work to be done in