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. Donal Moriarty:

Before answering that question, I would like to correct something I said in response to the Deputy's previous question. We spoke to the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, on the evening after we last appeared before the committee, rather than just before it, as I stated.

To answer the question the Deputy just asked, we are communicating very regularly with our workforce. We continue to emphasise the importance of the adoption by the State at a policy level of the traffic light system and a meaningful and appropriate implementation of that system. We are planning our business and resources on that basis. We have not engaged or communicated a detailed plan as to what would happen if that policy step and that implementation is not done. We are emphasising today the critical importance of ensuring those steps are taken urgently. Doing so will facilitate a recovery over time, a restoration of demand and, indeed, a restoration of confidence that it is, in fact, okay to travel. That is the important first step. As both Mr. Wilson and I have said, that first step has to be taken and then we can get into the phase of planning for what the future is going to look like.

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