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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The witnesses stated that the IAA is responsible. I still do not understand how the mistakes happened, but the buck stops with-----

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is literally to ensure this international best practice and nobody is giving the witnesses an answer about why this cannot be in primary legislation. People say that it is an EU competence or such. Germany has no problem in setting up a proper peer group system.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Mr. Brereton does not believe the Department of Transport can make the call because it has stated it does not have the expertise. I will move on. I thank Mr. Cullen and Mr. Brereton. That was incredibly informative. Beyond that, we have serious work to do.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness to captains Cullen and Brereton, they have laid out quite clearly that the desired culture does not exist at this point and that we need amendments, embedded in some shape or form, to ensure we have what is regarded as best practice internationally for pilots and safety to the highest degree for those who are flying. We need to follow up on that. On section 32, how expensive...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: They are necessary but it is a matter of the actions that follow them.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It does not make any sense.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Even in a perfect system, it makes sense to check and review constantly and have a feedback loop. One checks, fixes the mistakes and moves on, the result being that everything is better and everybody is safer. In fairness to the Chairman and others, this committee has said it has a body of work to do in chasing up and getting better answers. Is there anything else the delegates need us to...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome Mr. Muldoon, Mr. Meade and Mr. Kenny. I will start on the basis of the stuff they have put forward as important to their organisations in the rail review and future planning. Mr. Meade and I have spoken previously regarding the Enterprise service, which is something that is close to my heart as I use it quite often. We said that until it is at least an hourly service, it will not...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: When is that expected to be in?

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: So not all of those decisions are made yet?

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it. I just have the question on the wider cross-Border scenario and whether ----

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Everyone has seen the map.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is sound. I would like to ask about Irish Rail's interaction with the NTA. We had the Minister in here. Promises had been made regarding a flexible TaxSaver ticket, particularly for people remote working who might only be travelling on public transport only two or three days a week, and possibly even less than that. We have been told, particularly in regard to trains, that it is a...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: As quickly as possible. There is no timeline on this. The previous ones it had it obviously did not take into account just how big of a difficulty it is. I assume Mr. Meade is interacting with it from a point of view of an interim solution being possible.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Right.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is okay. Irish Rail does not have a solution that it can magic up today just because it would be very handy. I refer to the earlier discussion on community safety and security. What is Irish Rail's spend at this point in time? Can Mr. Meade elaborate on the use of undercover gardaí? Is that on the basis of where problems have existed before or is it for specific reasons? I...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that. The witnesses mentioned recovery and resilience funding. I imagine the Brexit adjustment fund would be relevant. Have the witnesses asked for money from it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Year of Youth: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is agreed.