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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. I just have a few of these kinds of questions. Mr. Gallagher might write to me on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is this subject to freedom of information legislation? I accept that there are security matters and that exceptions arise on foot of those but, in general, is this subject to freedom of information legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The financial matters could probably be subject to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am trying to get my head around this. If staff visit Ireland West Airport Knock, for example, and discover something not up to scratch, there would be an instruction issued and the airport would be required to take the necessary action. The facility would then be rechecked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The cost would fall to the operator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There would probably be a timeline. Under these new processes, are there likely to be enhanced security measures that will bring a cost to those entities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I have a few more questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to get a sense of the process for approval. If a multinational seeks approval, what conditions must be satisfied?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The process at Weston Airport gave me some insight into how the IAA works. For example, there may have been 20 visits to Weston in a year, with 16 being notified visits and the other four being on spec. The on-spec visits are incredibly important because it is like an inspector coming to the classroom, with things being polished. What number of these takes place? Does the authority have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The point I made at the beginning is that we have a lot of regulation in theory but legislation is not policy. It is the entity that is going to carry it out. It is a case of being satisfied that the system is sufficiently robust and resourced to do that. Is Ms Lennon satisfied that that is the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We are talking about ground operations in terms of the functions of the Irish Aviation Authority. The other function is keeping things separated in the air, which we would like to think happens in a very professional way. Following the awful crash in Blacksod Bay, does the IAA have further work to do in relation to mapping hazards? What is the status of the work in that regard? I know it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: While I can see the point about changing behaviour and the importance of the relationship, are there categories within the 600 other entities that are regulated? Do we know what we are talking about so that we can get a practical understanding of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What kind of entity would that be? Is it a cargo company?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will be as quick as I can. I remember reading Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll's report. Page 11 jumped out at me. It says that it would be much easier to look at the task of reopening six stations if the Garda were not confined to the criteria. I am paraphrasing what was written. Does the assistant commissioner recall that?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: This morning we heard that it is not just a question of opening a building. There are resource implications once the building is open. If one asks a question about resourcing one would be told quickly that the Minster has no function in that and that it is the function of the Garda Commissioner. The criteria that was set here pretty much determined the resource allocation for the stations...

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The acting Commissioner had the function of allocating the resources. We are told that all the time. It is a big problem. In my area, which is also Deputy Cassells's area, there is the lowest ratio of gardaí to population. I call the policing plan that is published every year a work of fiction because although there is the idea that criteria change all time, it does not consider...

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The census of population is a pretty solid basis. It was in the gift of the acting Commissioner to question the criteria and say this is not the basis we should be going on. He has accepted that he could have done that. Why was it not done?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The acting Commissioner went along with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: When one wants to find the desired outcome of an action and there is an investigation or inquiry going on one reads the terms of reference. The terms of reference in this case were so specific that it was hard to see a situation other than Stepaside standing out to be reopened. It was a predetermined outcome. The report shows that it met the criteria that were set.

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The criteria were written for an outcome. That is how it looks to me. It is not to say that if it was considered on an even keel, without criteria, it might not have made the cut but there were very determined criteria. When I read that report I said it was written for that outcome.