Dr. Chris Horn:

On unfinished business, our final report made several recommendations. Some have not had any follow-up at Government level that I am aware of. The unfinished business is to ask if the recommendations have been accepted and will they be acted upon or are they unacceptable and, if so, why is that, what are the issues and how do they need to be addressed?

We did look at the traffic light system. In our interim report, there was a recommendation from an EU Commissioner that there should be harmony across member states on travel and travel policy. That recommendation had been made just before we published our interim report. I think we acted very quickly. There was an intense urgency about our work. We were asked by the previous Minister, Shane Ross, to try to be as quick as we could in producing a thorough set of recommendations and I believe we did so over four weeks. It was a very intense period with a lot of work. On how quickly we could work again, the question would be to what effect? We have already been asked to move very quickly by the Government. I believe we did so. It has been three months since we made those recommendations and it appears that some have not been followed through by the Government at this point.

If Dr. Horn were asked to take up the position of re-establishing the task force to do an overview, would he take it up and chair such an aviation task force again?