The Government has finally given a green light for Christmas foreign travel.
Travellers can come home for the festive from abroad if they take precautions.
Family members living overseas have at last been thrown a lifeline from Leo Varadkar.
The Tánaiste has repeatedly said previously that he’d prefer if people didn’t come home, but he has softened his tone from a fortnight ago when he firmly told people to not book flights.
Speaking on Morning Ireland this morning, the Fine Gael leader said: “If people do travel, we do appreciate that is people’s choice and there may be individual people who have individual family circumstances that require them to travel, we do appreciate that.
“It’s what we have agreed as a Government and it is not as strong as the NPHET advice, which is stronger.
“We’ve agreed as a Government that if people do travel we are asking them to follow those traffic light rules.”
Mr Varadkar added: “So, if you’re coming from an amber light area, there are very few of them, make sure you have a test before you travel, a negative test.
“If you’re coming from a red area, which is pretty much everywhere at the moment, outside of Ireland and Iceland, we’re saying to people that if you’re coming, restrict your movements for the first five days until you get a test that’s negative on day five.”
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