'No consultation' over proposal to increase mandatory hotel quarantine list

Government has been advised to add 43 new countries to its quarantine list, including the US, Italy, France and Germany, but the Department of Foreign Affairs has yet to approve such a move

The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry near Dublin Airport, one of the quarantine hotel used for air travellers arriving into Ireland. 

Doubts have been cast over Ireland's ability to more than double the list of countries from which passengers will have to quarantine in a hotel.

Travellers to Ireland from the US and a number of EU countries including Italy, Germany and France face the prospect of quarantine in hotels after a recommendation from the Travel Expert Advisory Group, which said the current list of 33 countries be more than doubled, with 43 countries added to it, including the US and a number of EU states such as Italy, France and Germany.