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Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State has never explained to me when they are going to have an expert within their own staff.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I think it is important to put it on the record.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It is important. The Minister of State has pointed out that the Public Appointments Service will make the appointment aided and abetted by a contractor, an executive search company.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It is clear as mud.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Legislation that was brought in after the financial crisis, which was understandable in some ways, made a lot of changes to how superannuation works so there are people now paying into superannuation who cannot benefit from same. I ask the Minister of State to bring this matter back to her colleagues in the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform because I...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I want to check something with the Minister of State. Are amendments Nos. 7aand 7bbeing brought in as a result of the air accident investigation unit report which stated that the IAA was uncertain as to its role with respect to SAR?

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 3l: In page 48, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “(4) (a) An annual audit shall be conducted by the IAA of Ireland’s compliance with ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices. (b) The audit shall identify those ICAO standards that Ireland does not comply with. Where non-compliance with an ICAO standard is identified the audit will...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I refer to what Senator Doherty said. I reported earlier in the year that there were about 44 recommendations from the AAIU that were outstanding and there was no answer whatsoever as to what had happened. This is precisely what Senator Doherty is talking about, that is, reporting mechanisms. After I spoke about the fact that these matters were all open with the AAIU report, within a very...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I am rather shocked to hear that we rate so highly, given the report into Rescue 116, which was an appalling series of oversight failures and failures of everything one could possibility think of. There was recklessness on all parts. Very recently, I saw a tweet from the operator talking about leadership in safety and aviation. Leadership? Four people lost their lives. Let us not forget...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I am sure that the compliance with ICAO was there back in 2017. I am sure that ICAO was having a look over our shoulder or was it? If it was and we were so compliant, how the hell did we finish up in a situation where an operator was acting recklessly with its crews, a Department had no means of overseeing what was going on and the Irish Coast Guard, which was directly involved, was not...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It is in relation to the operation of the entire SAR system in that period of time.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The air accident investigation report showed there was very poor oversight and reckless behaviour. Where does ICAO fit into that if it is keeping on an eye on us and we are so compliant with ICAO rules? How did we finish up where we were? How did we finish up where the IAA was confused as to its role with respect to the monitoring and control of the search and rescue? How did we finish up...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I understand the Minister of State’s bona fides. However, in our wildest imagination, we cannot possibly say that we were compliant with anything leading up to the crash of Rescue 116. The air accident investigation report is damning of the operator, the Coast Guard, the IAA and the Minister of State’s Department. As my colleague just pointed out, two of the recommendations...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Just one final point-----

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Those are only two of the recommendations, there is another also which I cannot recall off the top of my head that is closed but not completed. I do not know how the Minister of State does that. There are four families out there who have lost loved ones. Are we trying to tell them that there was a recommendation from the AAIU and we are considering it? In the case of any air accident...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 4: On page 53, line 35, to delete "aircraft."." and substitute the following: "aircraft. 63G.(1) For the purposes of ensuring compliance with air carrier operating licence obligations (which is deemed for these purposes to include an air operator certificate) and compliance with any other obligation of any air carrier, the Irish Aviation Authority may cause such...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: There are so many pages of amendments that the Cathaoirleach will have to forgive me. I am lost.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I see it.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have it. I am trying to get my head around it. I am sorry, there are so many amendments flying through that I am having difficulty catching up with this one.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Forgive me. I am totally caught. Amendment No. 4 intends to delete the word "aircraft" and add new sections. This is for the purposes of ensuring compliance with the air carrier's operating licence obligations and compliance with any other obligation of any air carrier. The Irish Aviation Authority may cause investigations as it thinks fit to be carried out. We want to strengthen the...