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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: What is the risk in that respect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Why is Aer Lingus not taking a risk when there is a gain for it on that particular day?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: While we are speaking about Knock Airport, Mr. Walsh spoke last week about the importance to IAG of Gatwick Airport. With 70,000 passengers being carried between Knock and Gatwick, is there a possibility that this service could be enhanced? Is it secure under this deal? Profitability would be a factor, but I presume with figures like those it is profitable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: That is the answer I wanted. I thank Mr. Kavanagh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I thank Mr. Barrington, Mr. Kavanagh, Mr. Eduard van Wyk, Mr. Sean Brogan and Mr. Peter O’Mara for appearing before us today at short notice. The invitations went out yesterday. There was some comment earlier about the witnesses not providing presentations in advance but because this is such a live moving show at the moment we wanted to take the opportunity of an early appearance. I...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: 72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their agri-environment options scheme payment for 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7273/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: The purpose of this meeting is to engage with the Association of Plumbing & Heating Contractors Ireland, APHCI, and the Commission for Energy Regulation, CER, on the regulation of the installation of gas boilers. Following this engagement, we will meet CER representatives separately to discuss the cost of electricity and gas to consumers to establish why prices do not appear to have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I thank Mr. Egan and will now hand over to Commissioner Garrett Blaney. Serious allegations were made in the last presentation so he may want to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Each spokesperson will have three minutes to ask questions. We will then allow the witnesses to respond. We will run it as efficiently as possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: The witnesses are here because they contacted us and we decided to give them a platform to highlight the issue. This is the role of the committees. We felt it was better to have the CER here on the same occasion. It is not the committee's role to carry out arbitration between both sides. However, it is an opportunity to highlight the issue. Mr. Egan mentioned initially that the APHCI...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: It was reported and not acted on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Mr. Giffney said the APHCI reported people who were installing boilers illegally and it was not acted on. Will the CER respond to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: A division has been called in the Dáil. I will allow a reply to the Deputy's questions and then we will suspend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I thank Mr. Giffney.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: The Deputy's point is well made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Who has been asked to do this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: We need to move on. There are two other members waiting to ask questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: The CER now has another advertisement to investigate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I will allow questions on this issue from two more members, following which we will have to move on to deal with the gas and electricity prices issue. We will take questions from Deputy Dessie Ellis and Senator Paschal Mooney together.