Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the Irish Airline Pilots Association, IALPA, for its presentation. It has provided the committee with a considerable amount of documentation. It has made the point that the proposals are not based on the science available to the European Aviation Safety Authority, EASA, and there is a considerable gulf between the proposals and what is deemed to be safe and acceptable. As legislators, the onus is on us to use whatever means we can to ensure changes are based on scientific facts and passenger safety.

I suggest the committee engage with the IAA on the material the IALPA has submitted today. The committee could collaborate a little more with the IALPA to establish where the IAA sees these proposals going and why it believes they are safe to operate without the benefit of scientific facts. There is work for us to do to hold the IAA and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to account on these proposals.