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

I agree. I paraphrased what a garda had said whereby many rules and regulations would not be needed if people just complied with the law or had good manners in some cases or both. I accept that this is far more serious. We are talking about aviation here and we can all imagine the dangers, never mind the hold-up and that many people have also been impacted. That is the wider issue when we are talking about international solutions. From a technological perspective that makes sense.

The committee has done a piece of work around aviation and we have had multiple stakeholders in. The Minister is probably aware of some of the commentary by them. One of the simple solutions around the problem of the backing up of flights, the overuse of fuel and flights being delayed and people missing their connections is the talk about the European open skies agreement. What interactions has the Government had on that, be it with the European Commission or whoever else? Do we foresee something like this any time in the near future, accepting that there may be difficulties with certain member states and even with stakeholders within that? I am aware that there was talk about unions in France and so on.