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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Ms Considine for her presentation and for staying within the time allocated. I call Deputy Carroll MacNeill. The Deputy has ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Does Ms Considine want to come in on any of those questions?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: If Deputy Carroll MacNeill wants to concentrate solely on Dublin that is fine. I apologise, I am not telling her how to ask her questions.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy Carroll MacNeill. I will sound the bell when people have a minute left and then ring it when the time is up because I am conscious there are no clocks in the Seanad Chamber. I call Deputy McAuliffe.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: He has become a TD since then and mayor of Clare in between.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Gray.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Gray but I must bring in the next speaker. I thank Deputy O'Rourke. I call Deputy Hourigan.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Gray. I have a brief follow-up. Mr. Gray told Deputy Hourigan repeatedly that he had no personal knowledge of what the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection were doing and he said the same thing to Deputy Darren O'Rourke. Mr. Gray is not here in a personal capacity but as a representative of the DAA. Does the DAA have knowledge of what data the Department is...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Surely Mr. Gray expected this question. I expect he did not adapt an approach of see no evil, do no evil and hear no evil . He knew this question would be asked here today. It was in the news all weekend. I do not ask what Mr. Gray knows but what the DAA knows. Can Mr. Gray come back to us within 48 hours with an answer as to what the DAA knows, not what he knows or does not know or what...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Gray. I call Deputy Duncan Smith.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I might bring the Deputy back in at the end on this point. She is way over time, I am sorry.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: If I thought the answer would be brief, I would allow it. I do not think that will be the case, however. I am sorry, I will bring the Deputy in at the end. I am going to have to ask all speakers to stick to five minutes. If a member asks a question at the end of that five minutes, there is not going to be time for an answer. I am sorry but that is just the way it is in the context of the...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Gray. I really am sorry to cut him off but I have to try to bring everyone in and our time is limited. I call Deputy Shanahan.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Ms Considine and I call Deputy Michael Collins.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Ms. Ryan. I am going to bring in the next speaker. Deputy Durkan is taking five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy Durkan. I call Deputy Crowe.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: You may but I will have to bring you in at the end. I am sorry, I just need to get everybody in.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Deputy Wynne is taking five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is it a "Yes" or "No" answer?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I am sorry but Mr. Gray will have to reply in writing.