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Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Those are the exact words the Minister of State said to me last week. To be very fair, the record of this House is very important to all the people here.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Chair. When we adjourned a number of weeks ago, the Minister of State and the Members of the House said that they intended to seek legal advice. I would like to put our legal advice on the record so that we can then proceed, if that is okay.It reads: 1. These advices are furnished in urgent circumstances described below .... 2. Counsel is instructed with the following facts....

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: For the purpose of clarity, we should reflect on what the Minister of State said here on 29 June. I will not read out what she said, but I think we are all aware that she read out exactly how she has conducted the application of the drafting of the Bill. On that day, the Minister of State admitted that external advice was only obtained to insert the regulatory functions that the Minister of...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I am not finished. The legal advice that IALPA has obtained for the Seanad Members clearly states that Article 4 provides for certain principles to be observed by member states and their agencies. I do not see how we have upheld that article to that end. I disagree with my colleague, Senator Craughwell, about invoking Standing Order 70. That is probably premature. What I have done,...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I am not finished. We had an accident a number of years ago, Germanwings Flight 9525, which gave rise to the conversation and the EASA regulations that we now enjoy throughout the European Union. It was an Airbus A320 that crashed into the Alps in Nice. The 144 people on that plane all lost their lives that night. Six crew members were on that plane and they are all dead. The crash was...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Amendment No. 3 is on peer support.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I will finish on this point. We are debating amendment No. 3 and peer support, which is exactly what I am speaking about, is fundamental to it. The Leas-Chathaoirleach will be aware, by virtue of Standing Orders, that Senators are entitled to give any respective views we have on amendments and that is what we are doing. I am sure that the Bill will pass because I do not think there is...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: -----but I wish to put on the record of the House that my attempts to do this are far more important than titles or job allowances that I might get for any job that I perform in the House. What we do with regard to the Bill is a matter of life and death, and that is why it is so serious. That is why the people who are watching us and who we represent know that we are trying to serve their...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I have not finished speaking to the amendment. A lot of what we have spoken about this morning is about technical advice. It is not about peer support.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I have many distinct comments-----

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: -----but the first question I have for the Minister of State is on the basis of the statement she just made with regard to taking a different approach than relying on internal advice when we are looking at new functions for the IAA or, indeed, introducing new regulations for the IAA. The three amendments most of us are seeking to insert in the legislation relate to new regulations pertaining...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Can the Minister of State respond to the question I asked before she made her intervention?

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Why was a different approach taken with some sets of new regulations for the IAA versus other regulations for the IAA?

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: "Interesting" is a positive word. I am sorry to be pernickety. I certainly was not questioning the Minister of State's ability to contact the Irish Aviation Authority and to ask its advice. What I am asking is why the Minister of State took a different approach with regard to one set of new regulations she is introducing for the IAA around search and rescue but did not seem to deem it...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: -----licenceholders' charter and licenceholders’ forum. We have amendments from the Minister of State that somewhat waters down the licenceholders' forum to a stakeholders' forum. I must be honest in expressing some grave concerns with regard to importing the important structure and action of establishing a national peer support programme to a committee meeting that nobody will be...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Or women.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I know I am being pernickety and I apologise for being so. I am not suggesting there is a conflict with regard to the Minister of State approaching the IAA for advice. What I am asking about is based on her opening statement today whereby on occasions when the Minister of State introduces new pieces of legislation, she takes a different approach. What is the difference in the approach...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Minister of State said we have the same laws in Ireland as we do across the EU. I wish to put on the record that the inconsistency of the import of those laws is the reason we are all standing here having this conversation today. There is no uniformity of the import of the regulations of EASA. There is certainly no uniformity in the regulation of the IAA. I very much welcome the...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I welcome the Minister of State's acceptance of the amendment from my colleagues. I will make two points. First, the words "shall" and "may" are consistently used in legislation. They are a watered down version of telling someone or an organisation that it "has to" do something, which is a much stronger term than "will". I am not just saying this because it relates to a number of my later...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: The purpose of this Bill is to separate the current formation of the IAA into two structures, whereby there will be a separate commercial aspect of the authority and the regulatory side of it, which will be independent of commercial revenue and hence influence of airlines. What commercially sensitive information could the new safety regulatory authority have in any report that would not be...