Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not particularly want to know what the staff will do every day. We do not expect the Minister to micromanage, but it is incredibly relevant. Environmental sections of a local authority that monitor certain activities might have one, two or three staff working in them. Nine staff working full time on aircraft noise regulation specifically is quite a lot, but on some occasions one might need many more. What will the nine staff do? The Bill tells us - I accept that we need to change it in other respects - that a planning application will be received, on which they will adjudicate. How often will that happen? Alternatively, a complaint might be submitted or they might produce a plan every year. I wonder what else they will do or where is the overlap within the local authority in order to have clarity on how the Department envisages the competent authority working. What other jurisdictions seem to have is much more of an IAA regulatory function, with a high level of technical expertise in the ongoing monitoring of aviation regulatory functions.

There might be an element of being pulled on those skill sets.