Over 1,200 People From High-Risk Countries Have Flown Into Ireland Since The Government Signed Off On Mandatory Hotel Quarantine

The system is expected to be up and running in the coming week
It's more than a month after the cabinet agreed the plans.
The Sunday Independent reports over 34 thousand passengers arrived here between February 22nd and last Sunday.
Political correspondent with the paper, Hugh O'Connell, says most travellers are coming for non essential reasons: