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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: Mr. Walsh has given me his aspirational view. I will take it as "No".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: But Mr. Walsh did not say "Yes".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: I am taking that as a "No" in the absence of a "Yes".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: Mr. Walsh is welcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: We will not have time to hear the answers. Could we park it now, come back and then finish it off? It might be better. That is merely a suggestion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: I am trying to understand where we go from here and what the next move is. Mr. Walsh might expand on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: My question was not answered. I asked about the potential to have a strategic alliance between the State and Mr. Walsh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: As a result of today's deliberations and the previous ones, the one piece that is missing is the voice of Aer Lingus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: It might be suitable for the committee to invite in Mr. Mueller just to have a conversation about some of the issues we have discussed today.
- Order of Business (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: On the health information Bill, it is reported that the HSE sent correspondence to the Department of Health in which it sought a budget increase of €1.4 billion for 2015. This would represent a net increase of approximately €900 million. As the Tánaiste is aware, the HSE was only granted an increase of €115 million in the budget. The Minister for Health is on...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: The Tánaiste is supposed to answer questions.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: In September 2011, in response to the offer by Ryanair to buy out Aer Lingus, the then Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Leo Varadkar, outlined the Government's position when he stated: "The Government remains committed to the sale of the stake in Aer Lingus at the right time under the right conditions." The Minister, as the Tánaiste is aware, also stated at that time...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: We will try it again. I have a couple of straightforward questions.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: Deputy Stagg and others will be aware that-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: -----the partial sale of Aer Lingus ensured its viability and that it did not collapse. It has increased passenger numbers and is in a healthy state and the envy of other airlines. I therefore stand over that decision. It was a positive one for Aer Lingus and for Ireland. I stand over this decision because it was the right one. I am asking the Tánaiste very clearly - if the Deputies...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: -----a relatively simple question. I will condense it for her. Is the Tánaiste still committed to the sale of Aer Lingus if the conditions are right? The Tánaiste shakes her head as if she never was. In September 2011, was the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport expressing the opinion of just Fine Gael? He said it was a Government decision at that time-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: -----that the stake in Aer Lingus would be sold at the appropriate time. Is the Tánaiste still committed to this? Are the Tánaiste and her colleagues in the Labour Party prepared, if the appropriate guarantees on connectivity and jobs are obtained from Willie Walsh, to proceed with the sale? It is a simple question. Will she answer it, please?
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: I am asking the Tánaiste.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: Were they not important in 2011?
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aer Lingus Data (12 Feb 2015)
Timmy Dooley: 259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Aer Lingus regional service (details supplied) passenger figures for Shannon Airport for October, November and December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6355/15]