Calls for Government to say when mandatory hotel quarantine can be scaled back

It's after five countries were taken off the travel list yesterday, including Bermuda, Iran, Montenegro, Palestine and Serbia

It means passengers from those countries don't have to stay in a designated hotel when they arrive here.

Labour TD Duncan Smith says there's no explanation for what countries are being removed from the list.

"Yesterday's news was interesting and so far as we're seeing more countries being taken off the mandatory hotel quarantine list what we're not seeing is the reasons why they're being taken off and this has been a real problem with the mandatory hotel quarantine system is we are not sure what measures the government are using to either add or takeaway states from their list. And that's causing the system itself to have some problems in terms of public confidence."