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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)

Darren O'Rourke: Aer Lingus is unable to tell whether some people went home and just moved on with their lives.

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

Darren O'Rourke: Does Aer Lingus have an indication of the cost of the outage to it?

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

Darren O'Rourke: I appreciate the point, but for a sense of it, are we talking about millions, tens of millions or hundreds of millions?

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

Darren O'Rourke: There has been quite a deal of scrutiny of the systems and backup systems. We are all very concerned about critical infrastructure in many areas, whether that is gas or electricity pipelines. Was the outage caused by construction work or something else?

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

Darren O'Rourke: I will move on to the broader issue of the recovery of the sector. Will the witnesses give a sense of how strongly or otherwise the sector is coming back and the trajectory for the year ahead? On a previous occasion when they were before the committee, we talked about loading. Will the witnesses give us a sense of the recovery of aviation in Ireland? It seems to be strong.

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

Darren O'Rourke: I apologise for interrupting. It is hard to tell but does Ms Embleton think Zoom meetings and conducting business online is something that will be sustained or is she saying that she has seen it change this summer?

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

Darren O'Rourke: Will Ms Embleton put a percentage on it? What percentage of leisure travel and trips to visit family and friends is back and what percentage of business travel is back?

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

Darren O'Rourke: What about business travel? Is business travel back by 50% or 60%?

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

Darren O'Rourke: One of things we will be concentrating on as a committee, and we have the national aviation review coming up, is the question of regional balance. We have a very strong and dominant Dublin Airport. We also have Cork, Shannon, Ireland West Airport Knock and, on an all-island basis, Belfast. Will Ms Embleton comment on the type of considerations the likes of Aer Lingus factors in when...

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

Darren O'Rourke: Outside of Dublin, what is the case for regional and other international airports? I take the point that it is around the demand being there. Is there anything else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I have a number of questions and I will try to get through them as quickly as I can. On the warmer homes scheme, the target is 4,800 and Dr. Byrne said 3,200 homes had been done up to the end of September. How many of those are to B2 or B2 equivalent? I will ask Mr. Randles, our head of delivery, to address that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Does Mr. Randles expect to hit the 4,800 figure at the end of December?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: In regard to the overall target, the Minister said at the end of August that the overall target is 27,800 for this year. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: At the end of August, there were 13,400. How many have been done up to the end of September?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: How many of those are B2 or B2 equivalent? Some 4,200 is the figure the Minister gave at the end of August.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: How are the one-stop shops performing or delivering at this stage? I know there is high demand but are they delivering retrofits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: On what scale?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The level of inflation is a concern. What rate of inflation is currently being reported in this sector? Do the witnesses consider it to be a deterrent? I know people for whom it is a deterrent. They engaged but the cost of the work was beyond their expectation and their means. What level of inflation is being reported on these works?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Dr. Byrne. On the most recent occasion the witnesses appeared before the committee, they were conducting a study on whether heat pumps can be installed in homes with lower BERs. Has that study concluded or is it near conclusion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I have a number of quick questions for our guests. We are aiming for 6,600 solar roof installations by the end of the year and 7,500 retrofits to a rating of B2. Do we know how many of the 7,500 retrofits to B2 standard will be achieved by the installation of solar panels alone? How many of the retrofits to a B2 standard were, or will be, achieved by solar panels alone?