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COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form
From Department of the Taoiseach; Department of Health
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You must fill in a form electronically before you arrive in Ireland called the COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form. Failure to do so is an offence.
The COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form is an online form. You can complete this form by clicking on the link below in advance of departing for Ireland.
The information you provide may be used to contact you in the 14 days following arrival to verify the details given on this form and to provide you with public health advice. This form may also be used for the purposes of contact tracing in relation to confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19.
You are not required to complete a COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form if you are an international transport worker with Annex 3 certificate, the driver of a heavy goods vehicle, or among those with diplomatic privileges and immunity.
The Form will be used to facilitate a system of follow up checks to make sure the details entered are correct and to provide you with public health advice.
The Form will also be used to help with contact tracing, should we have a suspected or confirmed case on a flight or ferry coming into Ireland.
By law, passengers arriving to Ireland from overseas are required to complete this form, with the exception of the following:
- international transport workers with Annex 3 certificate
- drivers of a heavy goods vehicle
- those with diplomatic privileges and immunity
- one form should be completed for each passenger aged 18 or older. Details of children under the age of 18 should be included on a form completed by an adult accompanying them including name, age and proof of medical event
- to complete the passenger locator form, you need to provide the mobile number that you will be using while in Ireland. We will text you with a verification code that you can enter to log in and complete the form. A passenger when completing a passenger locator form can include up to 7 children’s details on one form. The mobile number of the lead passenger should be provided
Information you will be required to provide:
- the mobile phone number that you will use when in Ireland
- your email address
- your place of residence when staying in Ireland
- information on how you arrived in Ireland (for example: name of airline or ferry, flight/ferry number)
- passport details of all passengers
Declarations you must make:
- if you have valid proof of vaccination
- if you have valid proof that you have recovered from COVID-19 in the past 180 days
- if you have evidence of a pre-departure RT-PCR COVID-19 test taken no more than 72 hours prior to arrival, OR positive RT-PCR COVID-19 test result at least 11 days prior to arrival (and no more than 180 days)
If the address you provide on this form changes in the next 14 days, you must send an email with your updated address to the following email address: passengerlocatorform@plf.ie
After you complete this form you will receive an email which contains a receipt. This receipt proves you have filled out the form. You will be asked to show this receipt when boarding your plane or ferry. When arriving into Ireland you may also have to show this receipt to border officials.
You may be contacted during the 14 days following your arrival in the State to verify the information you have given in the form and to provide you with public health information or advice relating to COVID-19.
- details of children under the age of 18 should be included on a form completed by an adult accompanying them
- all children must be declared on a COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form
- unaccompanied children aged 12 and over are required to complete their own COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form
- children aged 11 and under do not need to show a negative test
You may be prosecuted if you do not have this evidence. The following offences are punishable by a fine or imprisonment, or both:
i) in the case of a first such offence, to a fine not exceeding €4,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or both,
ii) in the case of a second such offence, to a fine not exceeding €4,500 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or both, and
iii) in the case of a third or subsequent such offence, to a fine not exceeding €5,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both
- it is an offence not to complete and present this form in the manner specified
- it is an offence to provide false or misleading information in this form
- it is an offence not to provide an update if any of the information in section 4 of the form or if your contact details (mobile phone number or email address) changes within 14 days of arrival or period of stay, whichever is the shorter
- it is an offence to fail to give an officer who requests it information required to verify the details on this form
- in addition to these offences, a member of An Garda Síochána may direct a person who is not complying with the requirements in respect of this form to so comply. Failing to comply with that direction is an offence for which you may be arrested
- a member of An Garda Síochána who suspects that an offence has been committed may demand the name and address of the person who is suspected of committing the offence
- failure to comply with this demand or the production of a false name and/or address is an offence for which a person may be arrested
The Minister for Health is the data controller for the information provided on this form.
The information provided on this form, and any updates that you send, may be used for the following purposes:
- to contact you to verify the information on this form in the 14 days following your arrival
- to provide you with public health information or advice relating to COVID-19
- this form may also be used for the purposes of contact tracing in relation to confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19
Personal data contained in this form may be collected and processed for and on behalf of the controller by persons appointed for that purpose under and in accordance with Article 28 (Processors) of the GDPR.
The relevant Data Protection arrangements have been reviewed in order to accommodate the collection and processing of special category data.
This form and any copies of it, and any updates that you send, will be destroyed 28 days after your arrival, unless the form is required for law enforcement purposes.
If you wish to find out more about your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation or if you wish to exercise those rights, you should visit the Department of Health’s page on Protecting Personal Data at www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/381552-protecting-personal-data-health, where you will also find a link to the Department of Health Privacy Policy and to instructions on how you may make a Subject Access Request for access to your personal data.
Information on the public health advice and measures applying to those travelling to Ireland is available here.
