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Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to sit again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses for attending. I am conscious that a lot of the ground that I might have wanted to cover has already been covered. As one of the few Dublin-based members of the committee present, I can say that Dublin Airport is not just an asset for Dublin; it is an asset for the whole country. I believe that 87% of national aviation traffic goes through Dublin Airport. When...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I am referring to the number of security staff let go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: What was the cost of that to the DAA? Did the State and the DAA share that cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: How much would that have been?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: A little over a quarter of that would have been security staff. Is it correct that around €25 million was spent on severance for security staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I am just trying to do the maths of spending €25 million on 250 people. It seems like quite a big lump sum per person. What was the amount per person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: It just seems to be a very large amount. Does the DAA have the ability, in law or otherwise, to bring any of those people back? Have any of them been asked back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Are they in any way precluded from coming back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: That is my point, really. That is why I am asking the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: To be fair, I think it would be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: I accept that, but I presume that people who did the job previously perhaps took the package because it might have been too good to turn down. It might have been that they did not see the bounceback coming. Perhaps some of them were just burnt out from the particular lifestyle involved in the work. Working at 3 o'clock in the morning or 11 o'clock at night and doing night shifts is not for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: If some of those people wanted to come back, could they come back? Can they reapply or are they precluded from doing so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: That is the point that is being finally acknowledged. I have no problem with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: In any business, people who have done the job before are better skilled at it than people starting from scratch, by and large, unless they have been managed out for a different reason. In many cases, the work was not available for these people and the DAA wanted them off the pay roll to reduce its cost base, which is totally understandable given the downturn. Is it the case that that is it,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: That is what I am really asking. Is it correct that the DAA has hired 300 staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: So the DAA is now back to a complement of security staff that is greater than the number of staff lost. Some 248 staff were lost, and more than 300 have been hired.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Are there people who did not avail of the voluntary redundancy scheme but also left?