Cliona O'Flynn

And then you'll have question marks over whether there will be a field hospital used and how long the people will need to be quarantined, because there seems to be some uncertainty around what the timeline needs to be.

Exactly, because we do know that there is talk of setting up a field hospital at the port, which would make sense.

But the Spanish authorities are bringing their nationals back to Madrid to isolate, but they're not airlifting them back until Monday.

So that assumes that all of the passengers will stay on board until Monday.

Now, we do know that there is now discussion ongoing between all of the governments of the nationals on board.

There are 23 nationals on board, or

23 people from countries on board, including the Irish government, I assume.

I know that the Council has been in touch with passengers on board and probably the embassy in Madrid is now involved with those discussions.

The European Commission has even said it will also help repatriate nationals from different countries.

The British have already been in touch and are organising a charter price, we believe, to take their people home.

So

Between now, today is Thursday, we have until Sunday, and it does at least give the government some kind of breathing space to organise the airlift of passengers.

What we don't know is...

What will happen if there is some passengers who develop symptoms during the journey?

I mean, that might change the picture completely, because as far as we know, they're not isolated in their cabins.

So they are mingling with us.

Well, I'm not quite sure, Clare, maybe you have more information on that.

Well, I thought I thought initially they were being told to stay in their cabins, but that that may have changed, as you say.

I'm not.

I'm not 100 percent sure on that because they're all asymptomatic.