Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Philip Hughes:

If the Chair looks at the first slide from Manna Drones, he will see that what will happen is there will be integrated transport solutions. You may have an eVTOL where you come to a train station where those linkages are made. I think it might be part of the solution. I do not think it will be the full solution because the volume of traffic would be challenging to do that, but it will be part of it. For us, the question is, if it is part of it, how do you manage it, how do you integrate it and how do you deal with safety issues and things of public concern?