To ask the Minister of Health to detail the COVID regulations relating to booking and using domestic holiday homes and other tourist accommodation.

As of 24th May 2021, all remaining travel and tourism facilities are permitted to open. This decision was ratified by the Executive on 20th May.

Up to six people from two households can stay together overnight. If a household has six or more members the number staying together can be greater than six, as long as it is not more than 10. Children aged 12 years and under are not counted in the total in both cases.

Accommodation providers will be required to collect customer details to help with the Test, Trace, Protect contact tracing programme. Additionally, those providers which sell or provide food or drink for consumption on the premises must have carried out a risk assessment and take all reasonable measures to limit the risk of transmission of COVID-19.

Further information relating to travel and tourism, as well as the restrictions generally, is available at NI Direct on the link below:

Coronavirus (COVID-19) regulations guidance: what the restrictions mean for you | nidirect

On 2 March 2021 the Executive ‘Moving Forward: The Executive's Pathway Out of Restrictions’. The pathway is supported by a revised process for a 4-week Executive review cycle. The new process also permits a more urgent consideration of proposals from Departments deemed to have urgent or compelling reasons to fall outside the four week review process.

In this new process, the management of the changes to the restrictions regulations moved to the Executive Office (TEO).

TEO will now hold the lead responsibility and operational management of the process leading to Executive decisions on the ongoing need for restrictions and the requirement to amend the regulations.

This responsibility includes receiving and managing all proposals from Executive departments, management of the decision making process and facilitating consultation with departments on the drafting of amendment regulations. This work is supported by a Cross-Departmental Working Group, chaired by the Director of the TEO COVID-19 Taskforce team with membership from all 9 Departments and key stakeholders, including local government and PSNI.