Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport

Photo of Hildegarde NaughtonHildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

All of this input from stakeholders, including from airlines and airports, needs to feed into the mid-term review. The door is open regarding what we need to do to drive more traffic into the regions. That is clear. On PSOs, it is important to state, as the Minister said, that Ireland has always taken a liberal approach to our aviation policy. The EU's single aviation market is fully liberalised, which means European airline carriers are free to operate services anywhere in the EU. From a state aid perspective, we cannot ignore that side of-----

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