Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That brings me to the next point. That sets a context for the legislation, which we are now being asked to rubber-stamp or accept, coming from Government which ultimately is a culmination of discussions that have gone on, principally within the Department of Transport, I would have thought, in consultation with the IAA. They are effectively saying to us as legislators that we do not really need to go there as they do not believe that this is necessary. Mr. Cullen is making it clear to us that we should tread carefully because here is the same corporate mix of Department and aviation authority which, prior to the accident at Blacksod, suggested, at least, by not intervening to reconfigure charts and maps, that everything was okay. We all know the sad reality of that situation.

It seems to me from what Mr. Cullen and the IALPA are saying that we have a problem here. We have an aviation authority in discussions with the Department, which has created a piece of legislation that the pilots' representative association does not believe is fully appropriate to meet the needs of all of us as the travelling public.