Travel to Ireland from Scotland for Word Advice

akira181

I need to travel to Belfast and Dublin for work, I carry out air and water quality checks in medical facilities and naturally this cannot be done remotely.  Ideally, I'd land at one place, do the job, travel to the other, do the other job, stay the night, and take the first flight back.  I'm reading the Scottish and Irish gov guidelines on travel restrictions but the information is not easy to understand and maybe even conflicting.

From what I gather, travelling to Ireland, I don't need to quarantine on arrival as I'm travelling for work.  I require a negative RT-PCR test no older than 3 days to get into Ireland.  I need to fill out a passenger locator form for Ireland and N. Ireland / UK.  Flying back to Scotland, I also require a negative PCR test, and to self isolate for 10 days.

Have I missed anything?  I assume some sort of written contract between my employer and client?  Also, as I'm only planning on staying one night (I would come back the same day but there's a very good chance I'd miss my flight if I'm delayed in any way), would the negative PCR test I used to get to Ireland also be valid for returning (assuming it's less than 72 hours old)? 

I'm not even sure that's possible, if I get tested on Monday and receive the results on Tuesday, to fly Wednesday, my test results are no longer valid by the Thursday right?  I'd have to stay more than one night to get a negative test result for the return flight, assuming I can get a test the same day I land.

isplumm

look at https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/ireland - this is the site I used for travel to Spain this week.

CreditCardJunkie

Belfast = UK not Ireland so as far as I was aware you didn't need to test?

Edit sorry I skimmed over your post and I see you're going to Dublin too. I suppose it depends which airports you're flying in and out of. As far as I'm aware they're still carrying out checks at the border too so make sure you have all correct paperwork.

pelirocco

akira181 said:

I need to travel to Belfast and Dublin for work, I carry out air and water quality checks in medical facilities and naturally this cannot be done remotely.  Ideally, I'd land at one place, do the job, travel to the other, do the other job, stay the night, and take the first flight back.  I'm reading the Scottish and Irish gov guidelines on travel restrictions but the information is not easy to understand and maybe even conflicting.

From what I gather, travelling to Ireland, I don't need to quarantine on arrival as I'm travelling for work.  I require a negative RT-PCR test no older than 3 days to get into Ireland.  I need to fill out a passenger locator form for Ireland and N. Ireland / UK.  Flying back to Scotland, I also require a negative PCR test, and to self isolate for 10 days.

Have I missed anything?  I assume some sort of written contract between my employer and client?  Also, as I'm only planning on staying one night (I would come back the same day but there's a very good chance I'd miss my flight if I'm delayed in any way), would the negative PCR test I used to get to Ireland also be valid for returning (assuming it's less than 72 hours old)? 

I'm not even sure that's possible, if I get tested on Monday and receive the results on Tuesday, to fly Wednesday, my test results are no longer valid by the Thursday right?  I'd have to stay more than one night to get a negative test result for the return flight, assuming I can get a test the same day I land.

we have a transport form so go into europe  , so slightly different maybe 

we no longer have to have Covid tests to get into France , but they have to provide a covid test result with in 48 hours of arriving back into the UK , they do not need to self isolate 
You get Covid test results within half an hour ? 

heads up the passenger locator form is a pain in the bum , it can keep sending you in circles 

pelirocco

pelirocco said:

akira181 said:

I need to travel to Belfast and Dublin for work, I carry out air and water quality checks in medical facilities and naturally this cannot be done remotely.  Ideally, I'd land at one place, do the job, travel to the other, do the other job, stay the night, and take the first flight back.  I'm reading the Scottish and Irish gov guidelines on travel restrictions but the information is not easy to understand and maybe even conflicting.

From what I gather, travelling to Ireland, I don't need to quarantine on arrival as I'm travelling for work.  I require a negative RT-PCR test no older than 3 days to get into Ireland.  I need to fill out a passenger locator form for Ireland and N. Ireland / UK.  Flying back to Scotland, I also require a negative PCR test, and to self isolate for 10 days.

Have I missed anything?  I assume some sort of written contract between my employer and client?  Also, as I'm only planning on staying one night (I would come back the same day but there's a very good chance I'd miss my flight if I'm delayed in any way), would the negative PCR test I used to get to Ireland also be valid for returning (assuming it's less than 72 hours old)? 

I'm not even sure that's possible, if I get tested on Monday and receive the results on Tuesday, to fly Wednesday, my test results are no longer valid by the Thursday right?  I'd have to stay more than one night to get a negative test result for the return flight, assuming I can get a test the same day I land.

we have a transport form so go into europe  , so slightly different maybe 

we no longer have to have Covid tests to get into France , but they have to provide a covid test result with in 48 hours of arriving back into the UK , they do not need to self isolate 
You get Covid test results within half an hour ? 

heads up the passenger locator form is a pain in the bum , it can keep sending you in circles 

Firm ** not form