Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Irish Aviation Authority: Chairperson Designate

Mr. Diarmuid Ó Conghaile:

That is not correct. We have a statutory basis for the regulation of SAR. At the time of the accident, and before and after the accident, we exercised oversight of SAR, and we still do. We did that through a number of statutory instruments, which hang from our primary legislation, and also by issuing an air operator certificate to the operator and a national SAR approval. We exercised safety oversight and we had a statutory basis for that.

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