on that we are now joined by the irish foreign minister simon cove ne he had joins us now from colcannon land that is now the right time for the european commission to present its vaccine possible plan considering the chaos around the e.u.'s vaccination rollout i think i think the e.u. needs to be cautious i have to say and i think a lot of countries will do their own thing when it comes to international travel to ensure that we don't allow in particular you variants or mutations of the back of the virus into our country send so many european countries have struggled to get on top of the spread of covert 19 that i think they would be very cautious not to allow a 3rd or a 4th wave depending on what country you're in before we talk about this is an important issue i think before we talk about vaccination possibles we need to have people vaccinated and many you citizens including an island looking at the much much faster vaccine rollouts in the u.k. and the u.s. and wondering what's gone wrong in the e.u. so what's your answer. well look i mean up here the we haven't started as well as we w

cove ne he had joins us now from cork in ireland mr tony is st patrick's day ireland's national holiday today so happy isn't patrick's day 1st. thank you thank you very much there are of course many more irish people outside of ireland there are in the army and certainly. in many ways a global celebration for a global tribe of irish people many of them in germany too i'm glad to say that's true talk about global travel you as a foreign minister would normally be travelling the world probably today but travel is limited is now the right time for the european commission to present its vaccine passport plan considering the chaos around the e.u.'s vaccination rollout. well i think i think the e.u. needs to be cautious i have to say and i think a lot of countries will do their own thing when it comes to international travel to ensure that we don't allow in particular a new variance or mutations of the back of the virus into our countries and so many european countries have struggled to get on top of the spread of covert 19 that i think they would be very cautious not to allow a 3rd or a 4th