Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is under consideration as part of the policy. We more or less follow the American model of the FAA where safety, security and regulation is in with air-traffic control. Some take the view that we should split it, make air-traffic control entirely commercial and put safety and security in with the aviation regulation. I have been of both minds on that on a few occasions and I am not sure what decision will be made in the end.

We also must have regard to European law and it seems that European law may require us to do something like that, perhaps, not entirely but to an extent. I have not yet decided on that. Anything requiring European law would not arise until 2020 anyway. I suppose, if I was to talk about the IAA in shorthand, I would say that it does a good job and I would be in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" space unless European law or other regulations require us to.

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