Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Irish Aviation Authority: Chairperson Designate
Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The system did not work as perfectly as it should. That is a piece of work that we can follow up on later.
On the wider issue in relation to safety, what I am trying to get at is the question of whether, in the Air Navigation Transport Bill 2020, we have all the checks and balances we require to catch mistakes. Mistakes happen. We commonly use the example of global air travel. The system started working properly when operators were told they had two weeks to basically give notification of a near collision. At that stage, protocols were improved. Heads did not roll, but the system improved and it saved lives. Do we have that?
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