Public servants who travel abroad will not be paid for quarantine period - minister

Minister for Social Protection, Community Rural Development and the Islands, Heather Humphreys during a media briefing on the July Jobs Stimulus in the Government Buildings in Dublin. Picture: Julien Behal/PA Wire

Public servants who ignore the Government’s advice to avoid all non-essential foreign travel will not be paid their salaries for any 14-day period of quarantine on their return to Ireland.

The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Heather Humphreys, said on Monday that the country’s 330,000 public servants would face a similar sanction to people in receipt of the PUP who failed to following the guidelines on travel outside Ireland.