Results 201-220 of 10,460 for speaker:Gerry Horkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I will let Deputy Farrell in in a minute. We might park the drones issue, which we will also talk about, for now. Who is the leader who can make the change? Is it Eurocontrol? Is it the Commission? Eurocontrol represents 41 states and 37 air navigation service providers, ANSPs, many of which are not in the EU and may not be beholden to the EU as such but equally have signed up to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We will not say in the sense of a ringmaster in a circus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We will not use that analogy. On ATC strikes, Michael O'Leary has been vociferous about French air traffic control. I think he has been very vociferous about the head of the ANSP in Britain, saying that he should resign and various things.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: What are Mr. Hughes's thoughts on the fact that France has legislation which protects domestic flights from ATC problems, even though it is moving away from domestic flights anyway? Domestic flights are protected but overflights are not, which affects us even if we are going to Greece, Spain or Italy; if we go over France, we are in trouble. Is there a way out of that? Can we have a single...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Maybe there is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I am sure that is unparliamentary language.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Teetering on the edge, I think.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I am sure Deputy Farrell would have preferred a different answer but at least it is an honest answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: For the purpose of the transcript, does the Deputy want to withdraw his earlier comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We must keep everybody happy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is all right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We covered some of that earlier, and I am not having a go-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Hughes might explain what datalink is. I am not sure anyone out there really knows.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We touched on some this when the Deputy was not here but we can go back over it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: The Single European Sky, is that it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Hughes would not start from here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Is that the air navigation provider or the actual airport authority itself?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: AirNav Ireland is one of Eurocontrol's 41 members.