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 are at 1995 levels now so we have lost 25 years of growth. The country has been shut down essentially because there is only a smattering of flights coming in and out. We are down 95% and will continue at that level. For the 140,000 people in the sector it is a hammer blow. I see it as much wider than that, as I am sure the committee does, as a stranglehold on the overall economy and our ability to rebound in a post-Covid, post-Brexit world.

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