Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Working Hours of Pilots and Pilot Welfare: Irish Air Line Pilots Association

1:30 pm

Photo of Bríd SmithBríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

With all due respect, as somebody who is not a member of the committee but who is a member of other committees, it would be very wrong to send the delegates away without allowing them to make their presentation. It would not just be disrespectful it would also be unnecessary because if we have the documentation to which Mr. Cullen is referring, surely that should be enough. We often have to listen for ages to speeches from the Tánaiste or the Taoiseach and they do not present us with documentation. It is the same with members of the Opposition. As I do not present documentation every time I open my mouth, I do not see why we cannot listen to the delegates before us. We have the documentation. We may not have time to read it in advance, but that is not a mortal sin. It is possible to do it the other way around.

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