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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: Is Ryanair willing to-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I have described a method of intimidation that is being used against pilots. The High Court is a very serious personal threat-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: -----for the people involved. I do not see how Mr. Wilson can describe Ryanair's relationship as healthy, respectable or, indeed, co-operative. It is one of intimidation and if it is getting co-operation it is because it is putting the boot in.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: Neither Ryanair nor Aer Lingus is being fair to its workforce. They are been intimidated and consistently threatened with pay cuts, layoffs and with changed contracts. That is what is at heart of this. Ryanair has no right to come here with this hand out to the State-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: He did respond.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I thank our guests for their presentations. Mr. Cullen stated that travel is being used a bogeyman to justify the lack of investment in every other area to do with the virus. That is a pretty big claim and I would like to tease it out with him. He indicated that his work is all about safety and risk management. There is no doubt that air travel is one of the safest forms of transport. In...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: Somebody called it the Father Ted policy because of things like the inclusion of Monaco and other states which just do not make sense.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I do not disagree with Mr. Cullen on that point. However, on the wider question of opening up travel, there are things we have to look at. The witnesses said in their submission that aviation was being treated as the bogeyman in all of this. There was mention of high-efficiency particulate air, HEPA, systems. We have workers in Bus Éireann, for instance, who are being put in grave...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am asking about the airports.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I have a final question for Mr. Cullen.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I did not get a chance to ask the last question I had for Mr. Cullen.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I did not take five minutes and my last question is a short one.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is a very short question.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is okay for the first two speakers to go over but not for me to do so.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chair for letting me in again. I wanted to ask about the wage subsidy scheme which most of the airlines have been receiving from day one, yet they imposed pay cuts and job losses. There has been an advocacy to say that the State needs to step in and give more support. According to this submission, conditions are attached to state support given to Iberia, KLM and Air France such...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (23 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his priority legislation to deal with the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17624/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to give security to renters and help for those with rent arrears as a result of the continuing Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17623/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: 181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons on jobseeker's payment that go abroad for a holiday will have their payments affected in view of SI No. 242 of 2020; if the instrument applies to countries on the green list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17912/20]

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: No.