Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Enda Walsh:
I understand. It entails a risk-based approach to regulation, depending on the size and complexity. If you were to buy a small drone over the counter, there would be, depending on its size, set operating distances from people and buildings. The distance can go up to 150 m. It depends on the drone and the operation itself; there is no specified distance.
With regard to interference with radar, smaller drones will not have much of an impact. In fact, the radar would have an impact on the drone before the drone would have an impact on the radar.
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