Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will answer the Deputy's second question first. The IAA carries out periodic comprehensive reviews of its NAV charts. The most recent comprehensive review was carried out between October 2016 and May 2017. It involved the Air Corps CHC pilot organisation and its associations. The review involved a series of technical workshops over a number of months attended by over 100 participants. There were 100 recommendations arising from the process and all were incorporated in the current charts which issued in June.

On an ongoing basis, if pilots spot an error in a chart, it should be reported through a dedicated email address at the IAA. This reporting procedure is set out in the charts. The IAA has received no error reports through this system since the new charts issued in June. There is also a separate confidential reporting, separate from the email route. The IAA advises that there have been a couple of such reports since June. These were examined and they did not give rise to any changes. Where an error is reported and considered to represent a safety risk, the IAA immediately issues a note down, which pilots are obliged to check. The IAA has advised me that it has a high level of confidence in its systems around NAV charts, and I have that confidence too.

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