Mr. Evan Cullen:

No, there is not anymore. It has stopped. It is over, from the points of view of both the whistleblower and IALPA. The issue we had was that terrorists, when they attack civilian aircraft, do not use timers as triggers on bombs. They use pneumatic pressure. Although pressure in the cabin does not decrease as quickly as the aircraft climbs, it goes to the equivalent of roughly 8,000 ft. When an aircraft is at 40,000 ft, the pressure in the cabin is equivalent to that which would be felt on a mountain of 8,000 ft. That is how aircraft manufacturers save money on the thickness of the metal in the aircraft and so on, given the cabin is pressurised.

We were of the view that a pneumatic pressure trigger device could be placed in one of those boxes by somebody who had simply joined the workforce in Cork, without Garda vetting and so on. We approached the IAA, which indicated it would look after the matter. Based on what we were told - this has not been denied by the IAA - it is our belief the practice continued for a minimum of six months after the IAA was informed about it.