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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I did not suggest it would be. My understanding is there are about seven people on each security lane, comprising two people meeting people initially, one person monitoring the screen, two people handling security and two other people inside. There are activities the Army could do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Army could, therefore, take up some of the roles. Will Mr. Philips address that point, which has been put out there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is divestment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could the Army not oversee divestment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Mr. Hennessy suggesting the talks about the Army potentially assisting are spurious and that it cannot happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I call Senator Horkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is worrying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to clarify a point. Looking through the detailed schedule the witnesses have given us of the plan, am I correct in saying that it is 46,000 on Thursday, 52,000 on Friday, 45,000 on Saturday, 48,000 on Sunday, and 52,000 on Monday? That is not dissimilar to the numbers that went through last weekend. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There were 37 staff who were out, and the DAA is now bringing that number up to 40. If those 37 staff werein situlast weekend, would the DAA representatives be here today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. That is it in layman's terms. The DAA has upped the number of lanes to 12. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: On average, in each period, how many lanes is the DAA bringing up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will these be coming back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the general rate of absence from work among the airport security team?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Rather than 17.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We look forward to engaging when the national aviation policy strategy gets under review and welcome that Dublin Airport will play its role in ensuring that we have balanced regional development. Ironically, we have an airport with capacity for 2 million additional passengers. We very much welcome working in harmony with Dublin Airport to assist it with those 2 million passengers. That is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Good man. I propose to now move to non-members and then come back to members for the remaining time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We must be out of here by 4.30 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, the Deputy's question was specifically on what happened at the weekend. What is the DAA going to do to repair the damage?