Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion

Mr. Vincent Harrison:

On the security question, our ambition and our process would be to have all our security screening staff trained to the fully requisite levels. As we have brought staff in and as we were short of numbers, we needed to bring people up to a particular standard, in some cases, so they could be deployed and utilised, as opposed to being held on extended training periods. Of course, that approach was also required to free up the ability to continuously train existing staff. This is still in process as we bring staff into place. We are not, though, changing our modus operandiin the overall environment.

Turning to the question about bags, we have seen statistics, as this issue has grown, concerning the volume of baggage coming in broadly matching the volume going out. This means a big dent is not being made in the situation in the existing facility.

We have worked with the handlers to effectively relocate these bags into a more convenient area for processing. Initially, in many cases, the bags are everybody's. They need to be separated by airline and by handler. Then the tracking and matching to individual passengers can occur within the systems of the respective airline or handler.

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