Professor Tim McCarthy:

It is very true when you look at this because it crisscrosses quite a few sectors and Departments. Remember too that when we look at drones, we operate and align with what goes on in Europe and with the European Union Aviation Safety Authority, EASA. That is where we are at. When you look at its constructs, they do not really go into this area of nuance, privacy impact and noise. It mentions it. The regulation, Regulation 2021/664, which underpins U-space is not quite comprehensive enough. As we said at the start, Ireland is at the forefront here. The Deputy is right; it is something we have to deal with very quickly. We do not have adequate governance or legislative instruments in place to handle this at this point.