Special meeting to consider adding more countries to hotel quarantine list

A special cabinet meeting is taking place this evening to sign off on adding new countries to the mandatory hotel quarantine list.

Passengers arriving from 58 states currently have to spend two weeks in a designated hotel at their own cost.

But the government is considering adding EU countries like Germany, Italy and France to the list, on foot of medical advice.

Transport Minister Eamon Ryan says countries will come on and off the list on an ongoing basis: