It’s quiet.
Too quiet.
This morning.
Dublin Airport.
Tag Archives: Dublin Airport
This afternoon.
Did the state act unlawfully when departing passengers at Dublin Airport were approached and questioned by social welfare inspectors and gardai…
Via The Irish Times:
Under 2012 legislation, Social Welfare inspectors can question people at ports and airports, but only when they have “reasonable grounds” to believe there is a contravention of the Act.
However, according to multiple reports on social media and elsewhere this week, checking and questioning of people at airports has been widespread.
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) wrote to the Department of Social Protection in recent days asking it on what basis their inspectors had stopped and questioned people at airports, including asking them for personal information and personal public service numbers (PPSNs).
Meanwhile…
….The watchdog also said it is following up on queries made by individuals about whether the DEASP sourced information from passengers from other sources that allowed targeting of individuals for payment cancellation without any interaction with an inspector at a port or airport.
Absolutely delighted that all this being exposed for what it is. The state using its agents to engage in unlawful fishing expeditions at our ports.
— Roman Shortall (@RomanShortall) July 30, 2020
Yesterday: Reasonable Question
This afternoon.
Dublin Airport.
Swarm of sun-seeking, beer-swilling pandemic payment dolehead ingrates (out of picture).
Meanwhile…
The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection has said people who are in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment should be actively seeking work if their job has been lost permanently.
Heather Humphreys told RTÉ’s News at One in the case of some sectors, like in hospitality, where a person’s job is temporarily paused due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Government is not expecting such people to be looking for another job.
She was speaking after the Department of Social Protection confirmed that 104 people have had their Pandemic Unemployment Payment stopped as a result of checks carried out at airports.
Earlier: Selling A PUP
Wow. The govt changed the criteria for the Pandemic Unemployment Payment to include jobseeking criteria. THIS MORNING (last updated). Just after @LeoVaradkar said it on RTE yesterday. State schemes cannot be changed overnight due to loose lips on TV. https://t.co/If0ppkgq3Y
— Karl Gill (@KarlGill) July 27, 2020
This afternoon.
Meanwhile…
I have asked the Minister for Social Protection to detail any arrangements involving the transfer of passenger data between airports and ports and her department, including the legislative basis of any such programme. https://t.co/9LodsMo0Iq
— Cormac Devlin TD (@CormacDevlin) July 27, 2020
Pandemic Unemployment Payment (Gov.ie)
Earlier…
Since when does @DublinAirport have the right to give out private information on a passenger? That’s what he is saying that they get their information from the airports…. will he want to know what spending money we are bringing with us too? #Orwellian
— Babs McMahon 💞💚💕💚 (@BarbaraMcMahon8) July 26, 2020
Yesterday
Hi, we are not sharing any passenger data with third parties. In fact, we have no access to such passenger data.
— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) July 27, 2020
This morning.
Anyone?
Meanwhile…
— Babs McMahon 💞💚💕💚 (@BarbaraMcMahon8) July 26, 2020
Meanwhile…
On RTE Morning Ireland – Why are we now checking for jobs of those leaving at airports, but not checking for Covid in those arriving? https://t.co/9xlavSZlvy
— Paul Murphy (@paulmurphy_TD) July 27, 2020
This morning/afternoon
A practically deserted Terminal 2 1 at Dublin Airport.
Earlier: Travel In Hope
Not So Fast
at
Dublin Airport departures at Terminal 2 last month
Undertaking essential work travel out of Dublin airport and there’s presumably government staff with clipboards asking passengers for their PPS number and if they’re in receipt of social welfare payments.
— Feargal O’Connell (@Feargalll) July 1, 2020
Also I was asked for a letter at check in from employer to prove essential nature of my travel. https://t.co/hjFpAuPO1b
— Feargal O’Connell (@Feargalll) July 1, 2020
This evening.
Anyone?
Question — is there a reason the Union Jack is the centre flagpole @DublinAirport ? #brexit #dublinairport #ireland #dublin #flags #flag #unionjack #eire pic.twitter.com/Gz2edSHcHb
— Budgie Photo (@BudgiePhoto) June 23, 2020
WHAT!?!
The centre pole?
Anyone?
Thanks Mike O’Brien
Update:
Absolutely correct. On poles of equal height the National flag should be flown first on the right(observer’s left). EU flag is correct too.
— Colin Murray (@Donegalpoint) June 23, 2020
Oh.
This morning.
Dublin Airport arrivals.
From today, visitors arriving in Ireland must fill out a mandatory Passenger Locator Form to ‘help with contact tracing’.
Via RTÉ
Anyone entering the country from abroad must provide details of where they intend to stay for the following 14 days, and they will be asked to self-isolate at that location.
Those who arrive in the Republic of Ireland and travel immediately onwards to the North will only have to fill out their name and signature on the form.
Failure to fill out the form will be punishable by a fine of up to €2,500 or up to six months in prison.
Oh yes.
Playing a blinder.
Mandatory passenger locator form comes into effect from today (RTÉ)
Dublin Airport
Yesterday.
In the Dáil.
Independent TD Michael Collins raised the story in yesterday’s Irish Independent about some passengers failing to fill in a form detailing where they would be staying for the following two weeks, saying:
“We see today that a large percentage of people flying into Ireland are not filling in the form asking them how they intend to socially isolate for two weeks. We need to allay any fears in tourism communities, and that can be done if the completion of these forms was mandatory in airports and ports.”
During his response, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said:
“In terms of the airport forms, they are not yet mandatory. They may well need to become mandatory. That is something we are considering at the moment, but I disagree with the Deputy. Making it mandatory for people to fill in forms to self-isolate for 14 days when they come to the country is not good for tourism.
“People will not come to Ireland if they have to isolate for 14 days. We need to get to the point where we can have air travel start again. I want air travel to start again for business and leisure but that will have to be done safely. That is being worked on at the moment.”
Related: Passengers refusing to give details of plans for quarantine (Independent.ie)
Transcript: Oireachtas.ie
Pic: Rollingnews
Dublin Airport.
Open for a small amount of business.
Video from this morning/Pics from Saturday
Earlier: Essential Journeys