Mr. Evan Cullen:

From an IALPA point of view, we have had a mixed response from employers. One of the points I should highlight to the committee and which is important for the political system to understand is that pilots have been made redundant by an Irish company which uses the Irish courts for examinership and uses Irish employment law to make people redundant. After making those people, who had served the company for more than 20 years, redundant on a Friday, it advertised their jobs in Denmark the following Tuesday. It is far easier to make people redundant under Irish employment laws than it is in other EU jurisdictions. It was a serious kick in the teeth to people who had served that company well for more than 20 years to be told their jobs were gone and to then have those jobs re-advertised the following Tuesday in another jurisdiction. That was our experience. I will leave it there for the sake of time.