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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the witnesses. One of the most profound statements they made is that railway planning usually covers several generations. The destruction of our railways around this country has impacted on several generations. That brings me to a question from a dear friend and colleague in the west, Mark Duffy, who is a councillor in Ballina. He speaks about the western rail corridor. He...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Has Irish Rail ever considered a Ryanair approach to rail travel? If I travel by public transport, I like to travel on a train because I have the freedom to move about and I can get a meal on many trains, which suits me nicely. I am looking at fares. From Galway to Dublin costs €20 on a train and €12 on a bus. Killarney to Dublin costs €43 on the train and €25...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: There are two more points I want to put to Mr. Meade quickly. I drive quite a lot across the country as well. For example, when I would arrive in Cork, I might want to go out to west Cork or somewhere like that, and I take my car instead. Senator Horkan made the point that he would love to be able to drive onto a train and drive off at the other end. Similarly, as I drive across the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate the Cathaoirleach letting me speak this afternoon. I want to report a new form of cyberattack that is taking place. I have just been the subject of one. I got a message from AIB on the AIB telephone number this morning, telling me that my card had been used in Manchester and asking me to log on and put my details through. After I looked at the first page, I said that it was...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I had not intended to speak on this Bill. I welcome the Minister to the House. There are two or three provisions in this legislation that are reasonably good. For many years, I have listened to people outside talking about us living in a bubble in here, totally removed from real society. How many people sitting round the Cabinet table or in this House have ever experienced real poverty?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Security Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ukrainian Ambassador (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The ambassador is very welcome. I thank her for her presentation. How successful does she think sanctions would be if there were an invasion? Does she think the Russians would pull out because of sanctions, or would they just ignore them? My colleague mentioned the use of mercenaries. It is the case that militia have been set up in Ukraine and local citizens have trained in the use of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Captains Cullen and Brereton are welcome before the committee. Captain Cullen is an aviator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have often heard it said that if we applied the same rules to medicine as we apply to aviation, fewer people would die in operating theatres and the like. Aviation has a track record of being regulated and of being totally and utterly committed to rules, regulations and cross-checking that is second to none. That is the first point I want to make. Captain Brereton dealt with the peer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Our guests have been dealing with the Department of Transport for quite a number of years. Who is the aviation expert in the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: We are also entitled to hear if the captain and his members are engaging with aviators or with people who-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask our guests to explain in more detail their concerns around the Bureau Veritas report that the Minister referred to in the Dáil and Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Lighthouses are mentioned in IALPA's charts, as are some peaks, including on the Skelligs. The charts are very frightening. I believe the highest point of the Skelligs is 714 m tall and they are included in the chart at 147 m, if I am not mistaken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Are the Skelligs on a flight path into the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have a few questions about the issue of security. Anecdotally, I have been told about pilots having been handed packages by the company, for example. It might be cash that has been raised on an outward flight and it is given to them in a sealed bag to be brought home. That does not make for good security. Certainly, in my military career, I would not have taken a bag like that. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask the Chairman to forgive me for going over time but I sought a suspension of the debate in the Seanad because I am so deeply concerned about what is going on here. Will Mr. Cullen explain what is going with the local runway issue at Dublin Airport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: There are some suggestions that what IALPA is seeking cuts way across EU and ICAO regulations. Has the association taken any legal advice on its amendments? Can Mr. Cullen state, with hand on heart, that he knows IALPA is correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It has been said, as Mr. Cullen noted, that primary legislation is not the place for IALPA's amendments. If they are not included in primary legislation, how can we meet the needs of pilots, that is, the people who sit in the cockpit with 300 or 400 lives sitting behind them? I cannot emphasise enough the importance of the peer support group, which absolutely must be independent of every...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I accept we will discuss this as a committee in private session, but I believe the legislation should not progress until an independent aviation expert appears before us and explains why these amendments should not be made to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Mr. Brereton very much indeed for his time. I ask them to keep us in the loop as things move on. It is extremely important. It is the lives of passengers I am really interested in. These guys do a professional job but the passengers are the ones I am concerned for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Mr. Cullen very much indeed.