Mr. Cathal Guiomard:

Our legislative role is straightforward. What would primarily be involved is simply transferring the functions already in law to the new body. The story is certainly more complicated for the Irish Aviation Authority, although the authority can speak for itself. However, it must split the commercial air traffic control activity from the safety functions. It must separate all of that and then transfer the safety part into the merged office. I am aware that its legislation extends back over many decades so the untangling and knitting together of that into the new law, on its side, would be much more complicated than for our side. In our case, I do not foresee that the legislative revision would be a terribly difficult thing to achieve, nor do I foresee that any of the other work required to bring this about will be particularly complicated.