Coveney disagrees with brother who branded mandatory hotel quarantine ‘prison’

Simon Coveney thinks Mandatory Hotel Quarantine is essential to shield the country from Covid-19. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The mandatory hotel quarantine system was necessary to keep out variants of concern, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, has insisted.

It had been his job to ask the tough questions and to ensure  the system was legally sound and implementable, he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show. It was important that “we get this right.”