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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)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I know. I appreciate I am asking Mr. Moriarty to answer for a service that the airline purchased in the hope of it generally working. The airline has paid the price for it.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It was not working, full stop. Is that not the best way of putting it?

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Who would that have impacted on, in relation to that network card? I imagine it is not just Aer Lingus's information that could not be got.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: All right. Okay.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am assuming the Chairman is right that it was not working and the backup system only mattered when the primary system failed.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: All right but-----

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Ms Embleton said something earlier about there being just one line in. There should have been a greater level of resilience-----

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: All right. I accept that. I thought she meant something else. There was talk at one stage about the tertiary backup.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The company itself is doing that, I imagine.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is absolutely vital. I thank the Aer Lingus officials. I made them repeat themselves but now I at least have it clear in my head, at the same time as I should be in the Dáil. I have one last point. When people talk about regional airports, it is thrown back on the airline. A number of witnesses who have appeared before us have said that until such time as what people term...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: All right. I thank the officials. I need to run.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the anomaly in cases in which a social welfare recipient, who would otherwise qualify for the fuel allowance, is deemed illegible because they are renting a room in a house in which non-qualifying persons live with whom they have no relationship; and if she will make a statement on the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all know that this State has a very long history. We had a society that was built around not giving adequate powers or protections to women and, beyond that, actually oppressing them. I accept that a significant number of legacy issues have fallen into the Minister's in-tray. I assume that others did not want to deal with them. We are at the point of redress and we all accept and...

Energy Security: Statements (27 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I might have to agree with Deputy Carey. We may be dealing with this issue of energy security for quite a time to come. This is another one of these multiple overlapping crises. Obviously, we have energy security issues across Europe with supply, particularly gas, a situation that has been absolutely beyond exacerbated – I am not sure there is a term I could choose that would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-level Policy Response to Current Energy Security Issues: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Apologies have been received from Deputy Duffy. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Paul Deane and Mr. Cillian O'Donoghue. Dr. Deane is senior research fellow at the Science Foundation Ireland, SFI, research centre for energy, climate and marine in University College Cork, UCC. Mr. O'Donoghue is the director of policy at Eurelectric which is based in Brussels. We will discuss the...