Mr. Liam Keogh:

The second part of the contingency arrangements for air transport relates to aviation safety. There will be a derogation to allow entities in the UK that do not have the power to change their safety certificates and approvals to apply in advance to the EASA for those certificates to be extended. There are plenty of mechanisms available to aviation entities with the ability to transfer - such as pilots, for example, who can transfer their licences - to transfer licences to any national authority across the EU 27, including the IAA. On the Irish airlines, it is my understanding that the vast bulk of pilots operating Irish routes with the two main carriers are licensed through the IAA. A limited number of pilots holding Civil Aviation Authority licences need to transfer to the IAA or any other national authority in the EU 27 in good time.