Mr. Declan Fitzpatrick:

I will take a moment to lay out the whole structure. I had the pleasure of appearing before the committee before to talk specifically about the instrument procedures at Dublin Airport. The aerodrome is responsible for the provision of instrument procedures at its airport. It can, under the regulation, assign that to someone else. In Ireland, at Dublin Airport, it has assigned it to AirNav Ireland. It has an agreement on how that works.

Instrument flight procedures themselves are developed by specialist organisations approved by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. They will do the design and development to the spec that the airport or aerodrome would supply. Our role is that when those procedures are developed they are submitted to us for approval in terms of safety. We look at them to ensure that they are fully compliant with any international civil aviation organisation, like ICAO rules, or any European Union Aviation Safety Agency, EASA, rules that apply.