Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I hope I will be given leeway and be forgiven, as I had to leave. I had Alex McArdle, from the Marist school in Dundalk, up on work experience, so it is about trying to get all the box-ticking done and probably failing miserably.

I imagine the Minister has already dealt to some degree with the issue of drones given the weekend we had. May I have some detail on what exactly is going to be proposed as a long-term solution? I saw that the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, met the Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, An Garda Síochána and, I assume, any other stakeholder or organisation with an acronym that was available. This is an ongoing problem across the board. I think of Gatwick in 2018 and so on. We know there are difficulties with penalties, the ability to fine people and registration. We have a detection system but the we do not have a means of disabling drones. I think France and others have systems in play whereby the signal can be jammed and even take control of drones. Have we had discussions with the Garda, the Defence Forces and experts about delivering that sort of solution?