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. Dalton Philips:

We pressure tested it for external queueing areas. We have obviously followed up on SI 93 of 2020 to determine whether we could move forward with the planning exemption to introduce a testing facility. I was interested to hear Ms Considine from the Shannon Group say that through her planning authorities she thinks she will be able to get permission. We are not able to get it at the moment. Our only route at the moment is to go through the normal planning process which, as the Deputy knows, takes a huge amount of time.

On Deputy O'Rourke's point, we have to have pre-departure to get people out of the country. We cannot let all the other European countries do the work to get people in.

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