Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011

10:35 am

Mr. Cathal Guiomard:

Certainly the performance is better on the licensing side than on the consumer protection side. The reason for that is that in 2010 there was both the volcanic ash episode and extremely bad weather around Christmas time which resulted in a large spike in the number of complaints we received to be dealt with. We had a constant staffing complement to deal with that and consequently there were longer delays than prior to that or since then.