Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Eddie Wilson:

Some of that traffic may come back from other non-based activity because there may well be traffic for Christmas. However, reading this morning's newspapers and NPHET's comments, which have no scientific basis, they are now saying people should not travel for that because they are very worried. As I said earlier, being worried is not good enough; we want to see the data. The data are there that airline travel itself is safe and we need a framework as to what countries and regions to balance the risk. Life has to go on. We have got to look after the most vulnerable and we have got to be able to have a functioning economy. As an island economy without any connectivity, we do not have a lot of hope on that so I hope the Government will do something about this today.

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