Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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I am sure he can understand, as a representative of the airport region, how incredibly frustrating it is for him to answer that question in that way. I do not mean because of his answer to that but because he can imagine what it is like from my perspective and the perspective of my constituents. We are in this never-ending labyrinth of people saying "Well, that is not my responsibility. It is their responsibility. It is somebody else's responsibility." The very first response that Mr. Hughes gave me is that an SID is the responsibility of the airport operator. My issue, as a parliamentarian and somebody who has been very involved in airport operations for the entirety of my 20 years in politics, at various levels, is when I ask the airport operator to take a certain approach, bearing in mind the balanced approach they are supposed to take with regard to the usage of Irish skies, I am told, "Well, no, we do it that way or AirNav Ireland approve it" or whatever it might be. That is incredibly frustrating because I cannot get to a single person who is actually responsible. Frankly, if the operator does not want to do it, then it does not get done unless it is a safety issue but then they do not do it anyway.