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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Government decision was quite quick. The European decision was only made on 13 October and the following week we went to Cabinet with a decision and set the deadline of 8 November because we recognised it would take time to change the passenger form and ensure the other arrangements were in place. It will take slightly longer to make arrangements for the red list which is there. We are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: When responding to earlier questions, I said that we are open to looking at additional supports for Shannon and have made a series of supports available to the airport because it is so significant for the surrounding region. The fixed-sum-per-passenger mechanism might apply. We might have a waiver on landing charges or some other mechanism. It could be done through an operational...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: As I said earlier when responding to Deputy O'Connor, this needs to happen in the coming weeks not months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The system in this country works on a voluntary compliance basis. There is no international regulation stating what is certified and what exactly a PCR test is - although there is clear differentiation between antigen, LAMP and PCR tests. Because it is changing and because the virus has come at a certain pace and so on, it is not an area in which there is absolute off-the-shelf regulatory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The three-day requirement will be for people coming into the country. It is in another jurisdiction that that test-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: One of the reasons we wanted to hold back on that was until we had, as Dr. Holohan said yesterday, the arrangements between the Department of Health, the Department of Transport and others. One of the benefits of my being here today is to set that out. There is considerable confusion and uncertainty on this. We did not want to add to that. The Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, who has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: As Dr. Holohan and others have said, most of the reductions we have seen in the past two weeks since we moved to level 5 relate back to the level 3 restrictions, we had prior to that. The best scientific advice suggests it takes ten days or two weeks before we start to see the impact of a particular measure. While we need to keep adjusting to this, that gives me some hope - if no more than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: My preference is that it would be before then. It has to be sooner than that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I am aiming for a timeframe of the next two to three weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I was talking to the Chairman earlier and the national planning framework contains guidelines on balanced regional development. The aviation strategy is part of that.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
(4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the committee for this opportunity to present the 2020 Revised Estimate for programme A, relating to communications, of Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications. Networks are one of the fundamental buildings blocks of society and the economy. This is one of the main reasons I took responsibility for transport communications and postal services as part of my ministerial...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
(4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I was very pleased to launch the first of the 300 broadband connection points which are the first phase of the scheme's delivery. The Deputy will be glad to hear that the launch was not as far away as County Louth but was up in the Glenasmole valley, County Dublin, which is as isolated as one finds. There is a local community centre there where the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and I were...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
(4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: There is none at present but, having spoken to the national broadband operator, I understand there is certainly a desire on its part to do whatever it can. There is the same desire in the Department and across government. I do not, however, want to make any false promise. As I said, it is a hugely complex project and there will be a variety of technical, planning and other resource issues...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
(4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: Our whole approach is to try to encourage as fast a delivery as possible.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
(4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The European Commission will have to go about its work. I have to be careful as a Minister of a national government not to pre-empt the outcome in that regard. However, having seen this project go through so much detailed planning and preparation work over the years, I am very confident it meets state aid requirements. There was in my mind a clear market gap and a real difficulty in that...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
(4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, but as I stated, the vast majority of it will be delivered in the first four years. It is likely that there will be further delay for those very distant locations where it takes extra work. It is the Government's desire to try to accelerate it as fast as we can, while not putting additional financial burden on the State or taking risks around-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
(4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: That makes the case for it. One of the real advantages of what is happening is that we have the potential within four or five years of having the vast majority of houses connected in that way to a significantly improved service. It is not just the national broadband plan, while it is an important part of the mix, but there are other significant private sector investments by Eir, for...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
(4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, and the message I got from them is that they are keen to accelerate it as best they can. I said the same, but I recognise that we should not give any false hope on it. We have not really started laying out the fibre to houses. As that starts to happen, we will have to see if the timelines are working and if we can accelerate them.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
(4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: It will start before the end of this year.

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