Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I just want to make the point that we had an aviation recovery task force which reported last year. However, the circumstances have changed completely since it reported. There is a need for the Minister and the Department to get their heads around the scale of the impact on this essential industry and also to look at the moves being made. We need to react to them quickly or there will be no aviation sector to recover. I fully support the public health measures that have been implemented, and I actually called for mandatory hotel quarantine to go further, but at the same time we need the types of supports that will sustain the sector through this period. It is not just a matter of recovery. There might be nothing to recover if the Government and the Department do not take action.