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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: When will the testing protocol to which Deputy O'Rourke referred be ready to go to the Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: If members use much of their time to ask questions, I will have to curtail the time that can be allowed to respond. If they ask brief questions, it will allow our guests more time to answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have a few questions for Mr. Cornelius. Can we can have a proper functioning airline industry in Europe again without having a proper pre-departure rapid test in place and compete harmonisation between the individual European countries on the traffic light system? Would the Irish Government be required to apply to the European Commission for state aid if it were to give it to an Irish...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can the airline industry come back without having a common pre-departure rapid test and a common understanding of the EU traffic light system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: May I send a message to the European Commission loud and clear? It should devise a protocol around pre-departure rapid testing. Will Mr. Cornelis take that message back with him?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: If we do not have a pre-departure rapid testing system and harmonisation of the European traffic light system, how long does the IAA believe the Irish airline industry can survive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Brandon. Next is Deputy Smith, who has seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will not hold the Deputy to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has the Government to date made any application for state aid to support airlines in Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of Senator McCallion's question, are there any discussions ongoing between the European Commission and the United States around the development of open skies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: In Mr. Brandon and Dr. Connors's conclusion, they state, "It is the Irish Aviation Authority's view that Ireland should take a lead in promoting a standard approach to airport departure testing and the removal of quarantine requirements across Europe." They go on to state, as Deputy Lowry said, that, "The technology is there now; the next step is political will and an agreed standard...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: It should be possible to distil it down such that there is green to green, which has no testing of any description, orange to orange or red to red. I will not even go grey to grey. What would the IAA practically like to see? Orange is the colour that will mark the airline landscape for a time. What would happen where there is travel from an orange country to another orange country? Come...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: How can Ireland lead the way on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: From Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about departures from other countries coming into Ireland? What attitude would Dr. Connors take on that in terms of mitigating the risks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: Explain Ireland leading the way. I need to understand. When you refer to Ireland leading the way, are you saying that we have a pre-departure test in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: That would have to be a rapid test.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have one final question for the IAA. I refer to the issue of refunds to passengers from airlines. Can the IAA give us an update on the correspondence it has had with specific airlines and where that issue stands at this moment in time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: It does not in any way involve the IAA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)
Kieran O'Donnell: I would like to thank all of the witnesses for attending today and engaging with the committee, in particular Mr. Cornelis.