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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Is it the case that the airline cannot say it wants to go this way or that way because it will save it fuel? Do the airlines not have that level of discretion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: But, by and large, they follow the SID.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: But, by and large, they would be using the SIDs, as described, and they do not have that much discretion, other than a bird strike or if something goes wrong. They follow what they have been told to do. We were talking about airlines being able to cut fat to save them fuel. They are not doing it for that reason.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: When there was a single or main runway, aeroplanes took off and landed in the same direction. There is no other way we could imagine them doing it. Is it the case with parallel runways in place that they both have to go the same way? Do they both go westerly or easterly or can we have one going one way and the other going the other way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: That is what I imagined.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Because there is a mountain at the end of the runway or something that makes them go the other way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It tends to be that the aircraft tend to come in over the sea when landing, and they go east-west and they take off that way as well. Is that historical? I can understand why they come in east-west because they are primarily flying in from Europe. That is the vast bulk, although there are US ones as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: You fly into the wind and it gives you the extra lift or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: So the option of turning the north runway around and flying the other way is not really an option.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Which is 90% of the time or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: As no one else wishes to contribute, I thank Deputy Alan Farrell for giving the committee this topic to consider and Mr. Fitzpatrick for facilitating the committee's request to come in. It has been very useful and particularly for the Deputies around the airport. I am sure many people have been watching and listening to us. They may have had questions of their own. This has been very...
- Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: There is a future for both of them somewhere.
- Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister for his engagement. He and I had a brief chat outside the Chamber before the debate. This is very useful legislation but, as he outlined, it needs a little work. One of our colleagues in the House, who is both a former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and a former Attorney General, has said it does not need much work.
- Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I am absolutely in agreement with the concept of having a stronger punishment for spiking. The provisions in that regard are welcome. I congratulate Young Fine Gael, which is not something I often do. That will be chalked down and may be used against me at some point. I did not know Young Fine Gael was founded in 1977. I wonder whether Ógra Fianna Fáil being founded in 1975...
- Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Not as much as Senator Boyhan. It is important we keep a spotlight on spiking. I am delighted to be here speaking on the Minister's last day in the Department of Justice, for the moment at least. It is extremely important that the Department of Justice, under the command of the returning Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, takes this Bill from the Fine Gael group, which brought it...