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

Kieran O'Donnell: Are they operating at good capacity?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: What about Heathrow?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: What were they?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: How do the numbers of long- and short-haul aircraft before the pandemic compare with the current numbers?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I am talking generally.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Is that a strategic decision?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: How many long- and short-haul planes are coming on stream?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Are they so-called neo aircraft?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: How much lower is the number of short-haul aircraft by comparison with the number before the pandemic?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Therefore, there are seven fewer. Is Ms Embleton including the two in the 33?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: When growing short-haul services, when will the number return to 40?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: How many long-haul aircraft were there before the pandemic?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Obviously, there is an integrated model in Shannon. It entails the short-haul flights to Heathrow and the long-haul or transatlantic flights. My final question has been alluded to by some of my colleagues. If there were a PSO route between Shannon and Amsterdam, Frankfurt or one of the major hubs, would it be regarded by the representatives as commercially viable in the long term? Would...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it something Aer Lingus would be willing to consider?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Ms Embleton, Mr. Moriarty, Mr. O'Neill and Ms Carberry for attending. I wish them well with the tertiary element and getting the third service back in place. They might let us know when this happens. It has been a difficult time for the 32,000 passengers and the staff. I thank the representatives for attending. It was important. We will be doing work on aviation. Aer Lingus...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Housing is the main issue. I will speak in the context of the Limerick City constituency, which I represent. My views are well known. I welcome that the budget has amended the living city initiative and extended it until 2027, which means another five years. I want to see people living in the city centre. That is something on which I have worked. Limerick city centre has a Georgian...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State. He and the Minister have done a body of work on this. They have increased the income eligibility threshold in the five local authorities by €5,000. If we look back to 2011, the average industrial wage was just short of €36,000. Now the average industrial wage is just above €43,000 or €44,000. That is a 20% increase. There is now...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: 9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expand on the plans to increase social housing income limits nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47268/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have raised this issue on a number of occasions, including last February. It is about the social housing income limit. I read the report and the initial review of income limits for social housing. I have a couple of comments. Only seven local authorities nationally have less than 35% of disposable incomes going to rent. That is the benchmark. Between 2011 and the first quarter of last...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Second, I want an increase for a dependent adult from 5% to 6% and an increase for a child from 2.5% to 3%.