Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (Bill 100 of 2021)

Bill entitled an Act to—

A. make, on a temporary basis, exceptional provision, in the public interest and
having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by
the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and variants of that disease and in order to
mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease; to amend the Health
Act 1947 for that purpose; to provide for the lawful operation of certain indoor premises
subject to certain conditions notwithstanding restrictions in place in relation to such
premises under that Act; to provide, for those purposes, for a robust and enforceable
system of verification of the health status of certain persons, including vaccination or
recovery status; to confer a power on the Minister for Health to prescribe matters related
to the foregoing; to provide for enforcement; and to provide for related matters;

B. amend certain provisions relating to pre-travel requirements in respect of certain
persons arriving in the State; to amend the period to be spent by a person in quarantine
at a designated facility in certain circumstances; to make provision in relation to the
power of the Minister for Health to make regulations in relation to tests that may be
taken for the purpose of detecting Covid-19 in the context of the requirement to
quarantine at a designated facility and to confer a power on that Minister to prescribe the
purpose for which such a test may be taken; to provide that quarantine at a designated
facility shall not be required for certain persons arriving in the State in certain
circumstances and to confer a power on the Minister for Health to make regulations in
relation to those circumstances; for those purposes, and for related purposes, to amend
the Health Act 1947; and to provide for related matters.
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