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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: Yes, it was a network issue. However, it would be the cyber team or advice within the organisation that would presumably advise the best way for Aer Lingus’s backup data to be held, stored and secured. That is how organisations would run.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: One of the points of resilience and one of the key discussions in the area of cyber is dual site backups for the cloud system. What I have taken from Ms Embleton’s initial answer and statement is that the cloud was located in one site, albeit with a backup system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: They are in two different cities. Was the backup system that failed in a different city?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: Okay. That is clear. What does the tertiary system, which is the learning from this and the next step, look like? Where is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: Kyndryl is a pretty big player in this and presumably it had many other clients. However, there did not seem to be anyone else impacted or, at least, none that were reported in the news, and certainly not in the aviation industry. Was that because the backup failure was Aer Lingus-specific within this system and the backup systems of other clients worked? Did Aer Lingus ask that question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: There is a broader point here separate from what has been made in terms of how systems are being backed up when we are talking about data centres. I am not hung up on the fact the data centre is located here, in the UK or wherever else, as long as it is secure. What happened, based on the answers we have been given, seems to have been a unique, unlucky event. There are two separate sites...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: This is the reality of data centres and having everything online. It is not just one data centre that is being used, rather it is a mirror of the data in two separate sites. That is where we are going as a society in terms of IT and everything else, with all the subsequent climate impacts. I am satisfied with the answers. I thank the witnesses and I hope that something like this will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: The last time Aer Lingus representatives appeared, they were here with the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, and it was a fractious meeting. They informed us this time last year, when the company was doing its schedule for the summer, that it believed the industry would return quicker than other industries. It did return very quickly and the industry was caught out. How has Aer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: From 8 October, the railway order for MetroLink will be open for submissions with An Bord Pleanála. Therefore, I ask that Aer Lingus, which delivers millions of passengers into Dublin and has a huge workforce working at Dublin Airport, would consider making a strong submission in support of delivering MetroLink as part of this part of the process.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: I thank Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin for bringing this motion forward this evening. I will probably jump around a bit based on the Minister of State's statement. One thing that leaped out for me, which I did not see early enough but I am glad to see now, is her ongoing negotiations with the Minister, Deputy Harris, about the training and long-term supply of staff for whatever grades are...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises: — that until 2008 people employed in the community, voluntary and care sector, such as Section 39 workers, received pay increases under national wage agreements, but have not received pay increases since, and have no formal mechanism for collective pay bargaining; — the immeasurable contribution of independent...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and aluminium cans, for which the regulations were signed in November 2021 to achieve the separate collection targets for plastic bottles in Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the European Council of 5 June 2019, will come into operation; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the flight paths of commercial airlines are prohibited or restricted from flying over Ballyboughal, County Dublin from the new north runway especially given the huge increase in the number of airlines flying over the village since the north runway opened which is impacting on the daily lives of residents; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: 371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide for the installation of contactless refill water units in all schools, colleges and universities as part of an initiative to support water conservation and plastic reduction as part of a climate action plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49483/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Ukrainian children that have been unable to secure school places in the Fingal area (details supplied); the way that she plans to accommodate these children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49485/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: 706. To ask the Minister for Health the number of care workers employed by the voluntary and private sector who have yet to receive the €1,000 bonus payment for frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic; when such payments may be made; the reasons for the delay in making the payment given the ongoing challenges presented by the rising cost of living; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: 707. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria in the next phase of the upcoming HSE tender for homecare in order to ensure the best offers of quality care services from homecare providers; if a mechanism has been developed to determine a fixed price paid to providers; the way in which this mechanism will reflect the cost of providing care and market conditions such as the payment of a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: 708. To ask the Minister for Health if provision will be made for apprenticeships, on-the-job training, or earn-as-you-learn schemes within the forthcoming Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2022; if he supports such a move as a means to help alleviate the ongoing recruitment and retention crisis within the homecare sector; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: 709. To ask the Minister for Health when the Human Tissue (Transplantation Post-mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill will be discussed in Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance the charges for import and VAT on a package from another EU member state (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50431/22]