Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Bourke has had lots of exposure. I was not doubting him for a second but it is important to hear about that. While we can talk about AirNav, and we will, what we are doing today is as follows. The role of the committee is to assess all of the chair-designates of all of the various State bodies under our remit in the Department of Transport and in the bit of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications that comes under our remit such as the chief executive or chair of An Post and so on. It is important that we would do that. AirNav is a new entity but everything it is doing it has been doing for a long time. It is just wearing a new badge for what it is doing. We were dealing not that long ago with the legislation for the setting up of the board and the splitting of IAA into AirNav and IAA and then bringing search and rescue into the existing or new IAA. Mr. Bourke mentioned that vesting day was on 30 April so at this stage he has been in as full chair for more than six months and he has been chairing meetings and so on. I ask Mr. Bourke to give us an insight into how the new entity has been going. I apologise if I am asking questions that were already asked.