Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do. There has been a lot of correspondence on this. I know it has come up before, but we are in a possible position of industrial action with Aer Lingus. We are coming into the summer, which is probably the busiest season. Families have been saving for the whole year to go on holiday and are now facing the prospect of not getting to go on holiday at all. We are now discussing an allegation that there may have been over 37 incidences. I had a look at what the AAIU said and at the correspondence. I want to log it on the record because it says:

The A.A.I.U decided not to investigate my incident, quoting that it did not happen in flight. My incident of toxic fume poisoning was logged in (the) Air Safety Report .... as happening on the descent into Dublin Airport.

Surely the pilot was the fellow who was driving the plane, not the Air Accident Investigation Unit. That is my understanding. This raises concerns. I see issues in health and safety reports regarding what is deemed as serious. I know from reading the records on this that the AAIU said it was not a major accident. It is mentioned somewhere else - perhaps involving an Airbus A320 in Heathrow Airport or something like that - that the relevant aviation investigation unit considered it to be a serious incident. Oil getting into any engine is serious, never mind oil getting into an engine on an airplane and fumes leaking into a cockpit. I cannot understand how this is not being taken seriously. These are the ones that allegedly have been reported, 37 I think-----