Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Let us not hype it up to an extent which is pretty well unacceptable. I accept the merits of what has been said about the Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, and the Commission for Aviation Regulation, CAR. Everybody knows that the IAA was the first choice, but what happened was that the Attorney General was of the view that there was too big of a conflict of interest. We accepted this.

We went elsewhere, where there was not a conflict of interest. As I said in my statement, that was legally tested. The Office of the Attorney General has deemed this to be an acceptable choice. The Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, was not deemed to be an acceptable choice because of the conflict of interest difficulties.

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