Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport

Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Bobby Healy:

I have learned with greater conviction that Ireland is the right place to do it. We have generally a business-friendly community, Government and a robust regulatory environment that provides a lot of clarity. I wish we had had better regulations from both a planning point of view and a societal acceptance point of view. I wish that was developed further. There is nowhere in the world that has that. The only place that does have it is Australia. Would we have been better served in Australia? Maybe, because Google's draw and delivery programme has been there for more than ten years. They have led the way with this. Most of what I have learned is that we have been lacking clear policy on what companies like us are going to be doing. I wish we would have had that earlier.

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