Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion
Mr. Ronan Gallagher:
I will respond to the questions in the order in which they were asked, but if I miss out on something, members might pull me back. Senator O'Mahony asked what I meant by better services and for examples. Along with the restructuring proposals, a digitalisation project is ongoing in the IAA. It specifically concerns the safety and security of the house. It already involves CAR and we have preliminarily teamed up. For the new organisation, the IAA wants there to be a much more customer-friendly system of applying for licensing certifications. Currently, airlines have to apply to the IAA for certain licences and certificates for aircraft, and separately to CAR for different sets of licences and certificates. There is toing and froing between the organisations, which adds a lot of time-----
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