Irish Council for Civil Liberties question legality of airport checks on PUP recipients

A man wearing protective face mask walks through Terminal 2 in Dublin Airport. Picture: Brian Lawless

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has questioned the legality of controversial checks being carried out at airports to identify travellers in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment.

The organisation’s executive director, Liam Herrick, claimed the checks on passengers to establish if they were in receipt of the PUP weekly payment of up to €350 were discriminatory without any real justification being offered by the Government for their use.