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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)
Kieran O'Donnell: Therefore, what model would attract your members to come into Shannon Airport?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What would be the attractiveness for your members?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would you ever see an airport such as Shannon Airport, with its excess capacity, being able to fulfil a hub role?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: However, if we as politicians for our areas, in the context of balanced regional development, see a huge over-concentration in one airport on the eastern seaboard, we will speak about it and be serious about it. Surely, on an island as small as Ireland, a way must be found to rebalance all forms of travel and infrastructure along the western seaboard. Part of that must include aviation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are looking for him to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are going to Schiphol tomorrow as part of our review. We in the region believe we need European hub connectivity and, obviously, we have a journey to go on in that regard. I can agree to disagree with Mr. Walsh. Shannon and the region have this ambition. If we did not, we would not get to that endpoint.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Shannon could have a direct flight to Amsterdam with KLM. It could have a role where it becomes a major feeder to a hub.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We may be at cross purposes. Our view in the region is that we want a connection into the likes of Schiphol or Frankfurt. The question is how we encourage the airlines to provide flights that link to the major hub from the start.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is a discussion we will obviously have. I thank Mr. Walsh for his contribution. I now call Deputy Ó Murchú.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Transparency on its own merits.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Walsh will appreciate Shannon Airport was built at a time when we had the Shannon stopover.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have a phenomenal tourism offering and built on the back of the transatlantic routes we have a serious FDI sector-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: -----boxing way above our weight in population terms.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have this phenomenal asset on our doorstep. Shannon cannot exist on tourism alone. It cannot function in that way because we just do not have that. I take Mr. Walsh's points and admit this is outside the box. Shannon in its early years was completely outside the box. Brendan O'Regan was a pioneer in what he did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The question is whether there is a willingness within the airline industry to look outside the box itself to see whether a model can be arrived at in Ireland. We are very interested to see what is happening in Holland at the moment and in any way of going back. Deputy Ó Murchú asked if there could be a relationship between Dublin and Shannon and Mr. Walsh said "No". Why not? In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It cannot just be an emergency landing place for Dublin Airport.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are quite discerning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will put the questions Mr. Walsh is raising with us to the representatives of Schiphol Airport and the other authorities with whom we will meet tomorrow. That is where we are going.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What happened in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: On what grounds?