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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to changing toll barrier policy as it relates to heavy goods vehicles to bring in line with other European countries and to save fuel and reduce emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48764/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he will support the transition to cleaner engines for heavy goods vehicles; if he will introduce a targeted scrappage scheme; if he will support the move to Euro VI engines; if so, the way that he will support same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48765/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the call for the introduction of a tiered fuel rebate scheme for heavy goods vehicles to encourage and support the transition to cleaner vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48766/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has plans to reform the driver certificate of professional competence system for heavy goods vehicle drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48767/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or his Department have explored the possibility of securing an extension of the Ghyvelde Corridor exemption to Irish heavy goods vehicles given the significant increase in direct ferry crossings and haulage between Ireland and France post-Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48768/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the €87 million in funding announced in Budget 2023 to support alleviation of fuel poverty and ensure more energy efficient homes, through the upgrading of 2,400 local authority social homes includes funding for homes owned and managed by Approved Housing Bodies. [48789/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Regarding the number of people affected, am I correct that, of the 30,000 passengers, 20,000 people were delayed, 10,000 people had their flights cancelled, 6,500 compensation claims were received, and 91% of those claims have been processed? The 20,000 people who were delayed have been dealt with and Aer Lingus is working its way through the cohort of 10,000 people who had flights...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Is it 10,000 or 11,000 passengers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: So the number of people who applied for refunds and compensation is 6,500?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Do the 700 customers mentioned earlier form the outstanding balance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Aer Lingus is unable to tell whether some people went home and just moved on with their lives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Does Aer Lingus have an indication of the cost of the outage to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I appreciate the point, but for a sense of it, are we talking about millions, tens of millions or hundreds of millions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: There has been quite a deal of scrutiny of the systems and backup systems. We are all very concerned about critical infrastructure in many areas, whether that is gas or electricity pipelines. Was the outage caused by construction work or something else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I will move on to the broader issue of the recovery of the sector. Will the witnesses give a sense of how strongly or otherwise the sector is coming back and the trajectory for the year ahead? On a previous occasion when they were before the committee, we talked about loading. Will the witnesses give us a sense of the recovery of aviation in Ireland? It seems to be strong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I apologise for interrupting. It is hard to tell but does Ms Embleton think Zoom meetings and conducting business online is something that will be sustained or is she saying that she has seen it change this summer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Will Ms Embleton put a percentage on it? What percentage of leisure travel and trips to visit family and friends is back and what percentage of business travel is back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: What about business travel? Is business travel back by 50% or 60%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: One of things we will be concentrating on as a committee, and we have the national aviation review coming up, is the question of regional balance. We have a very strong and dominant Dublin Airport. We also have Cork, Shannon, Ireland West Airport Knock and, on an all-island basis, Belfast. Will Ms Embleton comment on the type of considerations the likes of Aer Lingus factors in when...