Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport

Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Ruth CoppingerRuth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity)

Residents cannot go to Trinity College and ask researchers there to come out and assess the situation. I am giving the witnesses an honest representation of what it is like for residents living under drones. Manna plans to accelerate that for residents. The gap here in this whole session today is that there is no voice for residents. No disrespect to the engineers, but we should have people from sociology and health and other academics.

Mr. Healy mentioned defibrillation. Defibrillation is not Manna's business, obviously. It would not be doing it only for the other business. Have any studies been done on the health impact of increased access to fast food arising from drones or to social cohesion from drone deliveries? That is one of the gaps we have in this session today.

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