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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: No, the title of this hearing is on Dublin Airport.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: The title for this committee hearing is the crisis at Dublin Airport.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: Well, I will be on the bloody topic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: My first question is for Aer Lingus. The witnesses have said overall staff levels are at 91% of pre-pandemic levels. Aer Lingus has increased the number of pilots by 6% and call centre staff by 90. I am not sure what the percentage is. Proportionately speaking, cabin crew and ground staff must have taken a big hit in the number of staff that has been lost. Will the witnesses comment on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: Earlier Mr. Moriarty spoke of a successful buffer but Aer Lingus is still recruiting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: How do the two match up? Is the buffer enough?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: How does Aer Lingus hire additional pilots without hiring the requisite proportionate number of cabin crew? Surely pilots are being hired for routes. These routes will require-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: For each pilot, X number of cabin crew and X number of ground crew are required. How does this work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: Do transatlantic flights constitute point-to-point flights as per the definition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: Without getting into the number of flights being cancelled because that has been answered it seems they are predominantly transatlantic flights, albeit a relatively small number. They are not impacted by Heathrow hubs or the issues on mainland Europe. Surely staff on those flights are not disproportionately impacted by Covid compared to staff on any other flight. Why are the transatlantic...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: What does that mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: The witnesses have mentioned there are infrastructural deficits in Dublin Airport that require stands, screenings and extra measures. This will have to be funded. The DAA has a plan for this that will involve increasing airport charges. What will be the approach of Aer Lingus to this? On the one hand it demands these infrastructural improvements but, on the other, how will they be funded...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: Aer Lingus will have a view and it will make it public I imagine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: There is a fixed tension in the aviation industry between the airlines, which continually drive down costs and prices, and the airports here and elsewhere, which have fixed costs that do not change and in fact will probably only increase. This is something the aviation industry will have to wrestle with but that is another point. The witnesses from Aer Lingus mentioned they foresaw demand...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: I am sorry. The way this is worded in the opening statement is: We reiterated our intention...[and] planned for and were prepared for the return in passenger demand. We built appropriate buffers into our plans in order to deal with [the] reasonable level of additional disruption. The inference there is that Aer Lingus prepared and hired for this outcome, while others did not. Is this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: Turning to the representatives of the DAA, is that accurate? Do they feel that Aer Lingus, as a major stakeholder in Dublin Airport, was saying that late last year? Did the representatives of the DAA have a different view as to how aviation was going to recover? Do they feel that Aer Lingus was prepared and that the DAA was not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: On the training of the security staff, I acknowledge the great strides made at all levels this summer compared with where we were earlier in the season. The security workers are being lauded by people going through the airport for the great work they are doing. Turning to the training provided for new workers coming in, some of them went on the job with a couple of weeks of training. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: I apologise to the representatives of Swissport and SHP for not having enough time to ask them questions. I thank them for coming in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)
Duncan Smith: I am okay.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)
Duncan Smith: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach the unacceptable and ongoing delays in the payment of the pandemic bonus to healthcare workers. So far, only 1,867 healthcare workers have received the payment and there is now talk of the bonus's provision being outsourced in order to identify who else is entitled to it, for example, home care workers, nursing home workers, paramedics and section 38 or 39...