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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I appreciate the Senator has another meeting to attend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Senator will have an opportunity when the legislation comes before us to provide us with whatever update he will have at time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the officials to the meeting and I thank them for agreeing to deal with that issue. I welcome Mr. Ronan Gallagher, principal officer, Mr. Daragh Phelan, administrative officer, and Ms Bronagh Treacy, higher executive officer. They are very welcome to the meeting. Before we commence, I am required to read the following statement on privilege. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I, too, have a couple of questions. I welcome the benefits of the proposals, which make sense, although I am concerned about the clarity on the set-up costs. For the legislation, the Department will give us the detail it has at the time. It is unfortunate, politically, that the Department was not involved in the set-up of Irish Water, new entities and the trouble they can cause for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am happy that the Department will give us the best knowledge it has at the time. That is fine. There is transparency in that. What of the question about benchmarking existing salaries? I raise that because it is an issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: Will it be a stand-alone entity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome Deputy MacSharry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not know whether it is official yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Deputy for coming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: The reason this is happening today is the Minister asked for it to happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I accept the accuracy of the Deputy's questioning. Earlier, Mr. Gallagher undertook to give us all that before we go into the legislative phase.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: No, those are important questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (17 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: Apologies have been received from Deputy Jonathan O'Brien. Deputy Pat Buckley will substitute on his behalf. We will continue in private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: Before we commence the main business of today's proceedings I wish to turn to some housekeeping matters. The minutes of the meeting of 10 July have been circulated. Are there any matters arising? No matters arise. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed? The correspondence will be recorded as read into the minutes. Correspondence 2019/504 is an email from Mary Daly, Department of Transport,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: With the Deputy's consent, I will ask the clerk to write formally to the FAI setting out our views very clearly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (17 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: On EU scrutiny, there is just one proposal. It is proposed that there are no subsidiarity concerns with COM (2018) 208. Is that agreed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (17 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is proposed that the proposal does not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome to our meeting Mr. John Treacy, CEO of Sport Ireland, Mr. Kieran Mulvey, chairman of Sport Ireland, Mr. Aidan Horan, chairman of the governance review group and director of the Institute of Public Administration, and Mr. Paul McDermott, from Sport Ireland. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: Mr. Treacy should put it on the record anyway, even though it is separate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Mr. Treacy. I now ask Mr. Horan, director of the Institute of Public Administration, IPA, and chairman of the governance review group, to make his opening statement. While Mr. Horan is getting ready, I propose to the members that we adopt the process we used at the previous meeting where we went round in the order of Deputy Catherine Murphy, because she raised the issue first,...