Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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That is somewhat encouraging. I disagree that it is early days. Almost every Member in this Chamber questioned the previous Minister, Shane Ross, in the Chamber a number of months ago about testing and testing capability.

We have always known aviation would take a huge hit and be one of the last sectors, if not the last, to recover. We talk about confidence. I do not think we are as far away from reopening aviation as some may think once we get a regime in place that people trust. That involves testing of some kind. We have lost valuable weeks on this that need to be caught up very quickly.

There is a great deal of negotiation going on at the moment with staff in the DAA. Is Mr. Gray in a position to give any comfort to workers that there will be no compulsory redundancies in the DAA, given what is going on with Covid?