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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Mr. Gray will reply in writing to the Deputy.
- 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: The Deputy will have to ask them quickly if he wants the answers today. Otherwise, they will have to be in writing.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I am sorry there is not more time. I have to be fair to everybody. I have a couple of questions myself. I would like to continue to discuss Shannon Heritage, which is part of Shannon Group. Ms Considine has repeatedly told us that most of the sites rely on international tourism for business. According to the figures I have seen, 39% of the visitors to Bunratty Castle last year were...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: School tours have inevitably fallen off in circumstances where schools are closed. Due to the fact that the are closed, however, I suggest that parents across the mid-west are looking for places to bring their children for a day or even an hour. The children have been unexpectedly under their feet since March. A site with 30 acres of parkland, a crannóg and a castle would have been an...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask Ms Considine to keep it very short.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Given that many of the group's sites were closed, it was not able to avail of the temporary wage subsidy scheme at least not in respect of some of the Shannon Heritage sites. I have three questions and I ask Ms Considine to be very brief in her replies. She stated that the group took on a site for its portfolio. What was that site and is it open? Some 39% of visitors to Bunratty Castle...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Are they closing at the end of August like King John's Castle and Bunratty Castle?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: That will be through to the end of the year. They will be open when all the sites in the mid-west are closed.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Ms Considine. I have one final question for both companies. During the period beginning in mid-March when everything began to shut down, have they had to turn away business? A "Yes" or "No" answer is required here. If they have had to turn away business, can our guests explain why? I am obviously talking about the airports.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Has the DAA had to turn away any business?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Okay. I thank our guests very much for their time and for answering all of our questions. I think some answers have to be provided in writing. One of those answers relates to the activities of Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection on the Dublin Airport campus and what is known about it by the DAA, as opposed to Mr. Gray personally. There are also some other answers to be...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I welcome our witnesses. From committee room 2, I welcome Mr. Eddie Wilson, CEO and Mr. Darrell Hughes, people director, from Ryanair. I can now see committee room 2 and I can see two people there, so I take it they are our witnesses and I thank them very much for joining us. From Aer Lingus headquarters, which is in Dublin Airport, I welcome Mr. Sean Doyle, CEO, and Mr. Donal Moriarty,...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask Mr. Wilson to make his opening statement but to confine it to five minutes in order to allow time for questions and answers.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Wilson. I will open the floor to Deputies. The first speaker is Deputy Devlin from Fianna Fáil.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I now call Deputy O'Rourke from Sinn Féin. The Deputy has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Do the witnesses want to speak on Deputy O'Dowd's point regarding the UK Government's actions?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Mr. Wilson keeps saying we are out of line with the rest of Europe. Does anybody know what is happening in Albania? It had an isolationist, inward-looking regime for a long time. Do either of the witnesses know what is it doing?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Doyle.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask that Mr. Doyle be brief because we need to move on to the next speaker.