“It is an honour to be of service to the State at this time and thank you,” he said, adding that Health Passport Ireland, which has since been rebranded as Health Passport Europe, would be launching trials in August. Mr Curley replied that the HSE would “potentially be interested to participate in a pilot”. It is unclear whether or not the HSE ever came officially on board with Health Passport Ireland. This was in response to a suggestion from Mr Quirke of a “potential pilot in Dublin Airport” for the test. Later in October, Mr Curley asked Mr Quirke specifically as to the location of his laboratory processing Covid swabs, and as to whether or not the health passport had been “stress-tested”.

Source: Irish Examiner January 29, 2021 06:30 UTC