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:

There is. We have an industry consultative forum. I have been to that on a number of occasions and explained where we are at and where we are progressing, and the feedback has been either neutral or positive. It is fair to say in the early stages at senior management level in the IAA there was concern because it was their company and they might have asked what the Department would do with it, but we have overcome that. There was concern among the staff, which was natural as well, when they first heard of that, but we have had good engagement with them directly and through the staff representative bodies. They are on board and they are supportive of that as well. I suppose, like good things, when a policy is first announced, no matter how much consultation has been done, once one consolidates or crystalises that one will do something, people get worried. We have been careful to manage that over the past year.

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