Group paid more than €5.4m to operate mandatory hotel quarantine system

The Crowne Plaza in Santry, near Dublin Airport, which is among the Tifco hotels providing mandatory hotel quarantine. File picture: Brian Lawless

A leading hotel group is being paid over €5.4m for operating the Government’s mandatory hotel quarantine system.

Documents published by the Department of Health show the official value of the three-month contract award to the Tifco Hotel Group to operate the quarantine system for visitors to Ireland is €5,416,290.