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:
Our approach throughout the crisis has been to maintain the employment relationship with as many of our employees as possible. That has been our approach across our business regardless of location. Employees in the form of fixed-term contractors have left our business and contractors who were due to join our business over the busy summer period ultimately did not do so. We have engaged in consultation with our staff and their representatives on redundancies. When we wrote to the Minister in that regard, we told him that we were looking at up to 500 redundancies. Consultation and the deployment of schemes are ongoing, but we now anticipate that the number of redundancies will be approximately 250. That figure is based on our assumptions about the recovery. Our plan is to run a significant operation in summer 2021 from all of our bases. In order to facilitate that, certain changes in policy and the implementation of the traffic light system have to take place.
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