Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I hope the Chair might give me some latitude with my time. I do not wish to dwell on the R116 incident. It is technical and a tragic situation, and I want to make other points in my five minutes. Surely, though, if the IAA is the body responsible for aviation safety, there must be rules. If there are no rules, they should be inserted into the legislation to ensure that anybody providing maps to anyone using Irish aerospace must have maps that are accurate. Is that not the most basic requirement of a safety organisation? It is all very well for the IAA to state that it is issuing VFR maps and that other people did not transpose them properly into their systems. Surely, however, it should be a requirement of the legislation that anyone transposing the IAA's maps must bring all the details and all the information concerning dangers and hazards on those maps into the equipment that is being used, and particularly at night when VFR is not that useful.