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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (14 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I agree with the Deputy on ensuring we have a functioning airport. It is not just about people getting their flights, although that is an absolute because it is the key service, it is also about staffing. It is about ensuring that the infrastructure is in good repair. It is about a whole range of issues that the DAA is well equipped to deal with, given that it knows both its role and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (14 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: In the context of the 370 staff, the DAA has told me that they should be deployed by mid-July and that, at that point, it should have security staffing levels equivalent to 2019. Again, I want to reassure Deputies of my engagement and that of the Minister with the management and with the chair of the DAA in this regard. It is about increasing security staffing in particular at the airport...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: Were we on section 59?
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I am okay for now.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I will address the Bill in the context of the amendments as they are put forward.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome Senator Craughwell saying the Bill is good and that is important. This is why I am back in the Seanad today after a delay - to get best practice legislation for Ireland. I am here today to speak on amendments Nos. 1 and 2. There has been significant engagement. I want to go through the amendments and talk through the concerns that Senators have. This is exactly my role. I have...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: That is what I am making myself available today to do. I would love to go back to the legislation at hand. I ask the Acting Chair to assist us all with that.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I know that.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I will try to answer all of the queries and I will go into some of the other details after so ask everyone to please bear with me. I cannotaccept Amendments Nos. 1 and 2. Amendments Nos. 1 and 2, as proposed, are not acceptable. As drafted, they risk infringing on the independence and flexibility of action of the IAA, as regulator, and contain a level of specifics and detail that are not...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: Government amendment No. c4a provides for the IAA to convene an aviation stakeholders' forum with a broader membership than licenceholders. The purpose of the aviation stakeholders' forum will be as follows: to promote the sharing of best practice aviation safety initiatives; to engage with the IAA on matters relating to the regulation of aviation safety; to elicit views on proposals for EU...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I have answered the question relating to this issue. I outlined the situation at the start. As I said, the Department of Transport has engaged technical expertise when required and does so when required. In addition, the Department is also undertaking a review of the approaches taken in other countries regarding how they contract technical expertise. This is an ongoing work, but the...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I have answered the question. The Department of Transport has access to all the necessary expertise. If the Senator wishes to deal with the amendments here, he can deal with them. If he wishes to raise other issues under Commencement matters and have a more robust debate on this issue-----
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: It is not related to what-----
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I have answered the Senator's question.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I have answered the Senator's question. We have access to all the technical expertise relating to-----
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: Yes, we have expertise in the Department in respect of-----
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I have answered the question.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: I have answered the question several times now. I have been very clear in this regard. I am not going to repeat it. I would rather deal with the Bill and the substance of these amendments.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Hildegarde Naughton: Regarding the forum, what is required here are people who have expertise in aviation safety. It is for that reason that if we were to limit it to just licence holders that we would end up narrowing the membership of that forum. Using the suggested terminology would exclude the representatives of airlines and airports, for example.What everyone wants on that forum is to make sure that the...