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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: There was probably an element of emigration from places, such as Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: People still need to travel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that. There is an element of what I will loosely term the western world having to get its act together on that. It is not completely applicable but there is the argument that after 11 September 2001, America ensured the free flow of credit because it did not want the attack to lead to a global recession.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: That said, the money all went into the wrong products based on property. Somebody, I think it was Bill Clinton, lamented that the money had not gone into renewables but we are where we are. I do not expect Mr. Walsh to answer on what the western world needs to do but let us get on with it quickly. As I think I have said before, it is one of the only weapons Vladimir Putin has that is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: People are talking about green hydrogen but also about hydrotreated vegetable oil, HVO, and biogas. I am not sure because anybody who is going to come and have a conversation generally has skin in the game and they are going to sell you the best story.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes, and that is what I was going to ask.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I suppose the smaller it is, the better, with batteries and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that. It probably sounded like I was oversimplifying. I just mean that is the sphere we are in. Who knows what research is going to pay off? That is the reality but we have no choice but to do it, given the circumstances. That is a fair point when you start looking at the figures properly. When you get down to it it is like every problem in that people try to aim at the middle...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is a different kettle of fish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: How could that be operated tomorrow?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are doing it because it is what we always did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: We need the EU-plus to sit around the table and come to a decision on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. The Chair dealt with my final point. We often have conversations in this forum on Shannon Airport. People talk about the regional imbalances and all the rest of it. Some of it could be down to where certain of the Deputies come from but occasionally there has been decent enough over-and-back, which IATA has probably added to. People generally say unless aviation policy changes we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. Then in the best-case scenario what could be done and what would it take? In very general terms, I cannot count the number of people who have sat where Mr. Walsh is and said Shannon and the regional airports must be built into a new aviation policy. However, I am not sure anybody has specified what that would look like in order to deliver what people would like to see in the sense of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: It has to survive on its own, however. It has to go out and sell itself. It is not going to be the Dublin plus or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, the discussion followed on from the points I was making. It was a useful conversation. The big point Mr. Walsh has made is that the European open sky needs to happen as quickly as possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I might just come in there, if I may.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: Most of the issues have been dealt with. A few issues arose in recent years, such as the disaster of people starting to fly again more quickly than had been modelled for and so on. Does Mr. Walsh expect that the majority of those issues we have been dealing with will not arise again next summer?