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Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: No, I do not.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I did not interrupt the Senator once during his contribution tonight but he has interrupted me three times.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: As we are speaking to the amendment on noise and decibels, 30 dB is whispering at a distance of 1 m, while 40 dB is the average office environment or living room. Others have compared it to the noise of a babbling brook.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: A noise level of 50 dB is the interior of car at low speed while 60 dB is a normal conversation at a distance of 1 m. I do not think I am shouting here.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I have just put my hand over the microphone. I am sure Senator Norris can still hear me perfectly well. He is suggesting Dublin Airport, however, cannot operate with noise levels over 45 dB.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I made it very clear to the Senator that if that level of noise were applied to Frankfurt Airport, in which there are 894 flights per day, it would be reduced to about ten flights a day. At least Senator Craughwell was honest in his contribution and what reasonable people understand. If one wants to make specious arguments, speaking to guidelines which are not standard or a legal...

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: This is the fourth time I have been interrupted. I suppose empty vessels make the most noise and not just aeroplanes. I fully support the Minister’s amendments. I will support the removal of amendments which seek to render Dublin Airport and all those who work in and around it redundant.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I wish to respond to Senator Norris.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I appeal to him to listen on this occasion-----.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: -----rather than interrupting.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I am anxious also and I do not wish to delay the Bill. If one checks the record of this House, Members will find that what I said was whispering at a distance of 1 m is around 30 dB, that the average office environment and living room was 40 dB not 60 dB and that normal conversation at a distance of a metre can be up to 60 dB. Let us keep to the facts of what I said rather than trying to...

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I do have not them here in front of me, but I can get the sources.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I am as interested in people's health and their hearing being protected as anybody else. I thank Senator Devine for her contribution. She is known to be interested in mental health and she knows that mental health does not thrive when people lose their jobs. I am not purely focused on economic activity rather on a balanced approach that allows a regulator - and we are not speaking to the...

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I thank the Minister for his offer. We will certainly take it up. I do not want this to be seen as a situation with winners and losers. We are trying to achieve a balanced approach that allows a critical part of our infrastructure, not just for Fingal but for the country, to continue to prosper, grow and provide jobs, and at the same time protect the rights of those who live near it and to...

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I wish to reiterate what I have said previously. Fingal County Council had its reservations, a period of nearly a year elapsed in which time there was ample opportunity for it to address its reservations, have them looked into and sorted, and it was quite happy at the end of it. It has made it very clear that it is happy with it. To state that because it collects rates, it has an immediate...

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: As I say, I will defend Fingal County Council's record and reputation and if it states that it is in a position to do this, it will do so in an exemplary fashion. Just as there is an appeal mechanism for planning decisions, there is an appeal mechanism in this Bill as well. Others have raised the issue of CAR and I know the Minister has a comprehensive note and he will deal with that.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I ask the Senator to withdraw that accusation. Fingal County Council is not here to defend itself. The Senator slurs everyone in the council with that statement and he should withdraw it.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: On behalf of the council, I thank Senator Norris for doing so because its reputation is important.

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: There are a number of issues. I go back to my original contention that this is very much like planning. One could argue that by giving planning permission for various factories or businesses etc., there would be a conflict as rates would be collected from those businesses. Nobody would argue that in this House. Using that argument in the same vein with respect to a noise regulator does...

Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

James Reilly: I was asked earlier where I got my information on decibel levels and the comparisons. As Senator Craughwell demonstrated, they are freely available on the Internet and they are used internationally by sound engineers and hearing companies here and in the UK. They were put together for this matter by environmental consultants in the UK. We need this regulator quickly. We need it for the...