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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I do not see like-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Could we see hundreds of people-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Hughes. He provided an opening statement and a number of briefing documents. There are more slides and the 96-page Single European Sky ATM Research, SESAR, document. I am not sure every member has fully read the latter yet, especially as we only received it in the past day or two. I am sure it makes for good background reading. I have a few questions. We hear phrases like...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: If you thought the sky was full or saturated already, it is going to be much more saturated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I am thinking out loud. When people were doing up their houses 20 years ago, they were putting in Cat5 cable everywhere. Two years later wireless came along, and it was completely redundant after people had put wires in every room to ensure they had connectivity. This is not to take away from the wonderful MetroLink project that is close to the heart of Deputy Smith and others. Could it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: All of these underground tunnels will not be needed in the same way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Sorry, members. It is semi-farcical-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: -----but is it, though? That is the question. I am genuinely asking if it will be the case that people will be coming out of Leinster House or any other workplace and putting on their drone backpack? There could be hundreds or thousands of people heading out the N11 or the N7 to go home every day. Is that technically where we could be heading?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I presume a lot of it is battery driven, and there is lithium and the metals that go into it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is thought provoking. It may happen at one stage, maybe not in our lifetimes, but who knows.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I think I remember seeing the repeats.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I am older than the two members. Would either of them like to come in? I may come back in later. It is almost so far out there it is hard to get our heads around.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is kind of thought provoking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Privacy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is a little like how Covid-19 started us all using plastic instead of cash.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Scaling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Do either of the members want to comment on the other slides from earlier? I want to touch on one or two points and then we will probably have finished. We might have touched on this at our meeting in Brussels. Historically, planes flew in straight lines to particular points, so there were a lot of triangle-type routes. That used a simpler technology than the one now available. Are we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: In respect of sustainability, fuel burning and capacity building, it is all good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I understand that part of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Would some countries lose out? At present, aircraft are flying through their airspace, but they might not have to do so. They might not get the money they used to get so they want to keep them flying the old routes.