Harmonising travel regimes across Ireland and Britain will be 'challenging'

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, First Minister Arlene Foster, and Tanaiste Leo Varadkar in Dublin Castle for the first summit of the North South Ministerial Council since before Northern Ireland's powersharing administration collapsed. Picture: Damien Eagers/PA Wire

Cross-border work on improving the monitoring of quarantining international visitors is moving forward, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.

Harmonising travel regimes across Britain and Ireland will be "challenging" but the threat posed by the pandemic means politicians also have to act quickly, he said.