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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: There is an element of see-saw because one would hope that when the aviation industry recovers, the necessity for testing and tracing will, hopefully, not be there by then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I refer to something Mr. Philips said. It is something I believe would have been the case heretofore, that is, this idea of losing a route and being unable to have it returned for probably three to five years. Would Mr. Philips accept that this is a very untypical situation? It is not as if an asset is being moved to another location. The fact is there will be, as part of the recovery,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. Philips. Which country is closest to us in terms of that deeper level of restrictions being in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Of course, the US, from a European perspective, is closed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that and I think I made the point at an earlier session that if representatives of the clothing retail sector were before us, I suspect they would feel they were carrying an undue burden too. I suspect they would make the point that some of the airlines made, namely, that there are no cases of transmission of the virus in a clothes shop, in the same way as Mr. Wilson sought to sort...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: That did not stop Mr. Wilson.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: We have to take everything into perspective. Ms Considine will be familiar with some of the geography I talk about but if one lives in Tulla, as I do, and somebody else is living in Lissycasey in west County Clare, there are more than 5 km between us. At the moment we are being told we cannot travel between those two locations so there is that difficulty with saying we should open up the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: That is the point I am making, lest those who are watching this committee think that somehow we are suggesting that all this should be taking place in the current restrictions. We are looking at the short to medium term to have our ducks in a row when the suppression rates improve and where NPHET is at a point where it is able to recommend to Government an easing of our domestic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome Dr. Holohan, Dr. De Gascun and Mr. Morris and thank them for their ongoing work on behalf of the Irish people. I am going to put a few things to our guests that we have heard from others who know more about the aviation sector than I do. Mr. Eddie Wilson of Ryanair was recently before the committee. He sought to paint Ireland's approach to the movement of people in a rather dark...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: It would be useful if Dr. Holohan provided that to us in written form at a later stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Have any peer-reviewed studies been done on the work NPHET does and what is done in other countries?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: That is okay. Fire ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: It would be helpful to get that message out because a charge is made, one which does not reflect well on either the witnesses or us, that Ireland has the strictest regime in place and we are largely responsible for locking down aviation across Europe. The numbers from EUROCONTROL clearly negate those statements so it would be helpful to get that message out there. Perhaps Dr. Holohan will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I am out of time. I would appreciate if Dr. Holohan could provide us with the information so we can reflect it in our report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: The information would be helpful in addressing, to some extent, the public concern about us being out of kilter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: A certain cohort of the population has come to the view that Covid will not affect it, and this obviously influences the behaviour of people in that group. Do the witnesses see any value in publishing the ages of those who have passed and the ages of those in ICUs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: The mean age. Yes, I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Beyond young.