Mr. Maurice O'Connor:

To answer some of Deputy Munster's questions, the answer is: "No, we were not advised." Ryanair has no obligation to advise us. However, we have extremely good daily dialogue with Ryanair when it comes to compliance and safety regulation. However, I believe, as probably most people believe, that this was handled extremely badly by Ryanair. It was a completely commercial decision, which we have no real influence on. It is up to each airline in its entirety to manage its own operations. I do not micro-manage Ryanair.

With regard to the just culture element of it, just culture is a very important part of aviation safety and we encourage this attitude completely through our flight operations consultation groups, other bulletins, etc. In terms of the safety report being an individual report or of a mandatory reporting system, we have a comprehensive system both for individual reports and mandatory safety reports. On the reaction time, going back to 2012 that information is readily available to us. We analyse the mandatory safety reports, which are reported by the airlines, weekly. We analyse them from an operational point of view on a Monday. It is then taken in the afternoon to the senior management group if there are articles or items of safety that we think would concern it so that it understands our decision making. We score these with the airline risk management solutions, ARMS, system, which is a comprehensive system that has been recognised by IASA to be one of the best. We also supply the information to Europe on a monthly basis. From a safety report point of view, we react to each individual and each airline's reports.