Results 601-620 of 11,006 for speaker:Timmy Dooley

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Like others, I welcome Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Harrison and Ms Gubbins and thank them for being with us. Their predecessors have been here in the past and I think they might have been here with Ryanair previously or certainly some of their representatives were. Their insight into the aviation sector will be helpful to the overall mix. Before I begin my questions, I will carry on from Senator...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Does Mr. Jacobs not accept that having Dublin Airport as the parent, gives Cork Airport an unfair advantage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I would not expect him to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I want Cork Airport to work as well. I have family in Cork and we all want to see the regions work. However, Shannon Airport is being starved to some extent. Notwithstanding the wonderful work that Mary Considine and her team are doing there, it is always against a backdrop that a relatively small amount of the kind of business I talked about - the transit and cargo - would make such a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: From the perspective of Dublin Airport, would Mr. Jacobs be averse to accepting in a new paradigm that the bulk of cargo should be directed through a regional airport, other than that which would operate in the belly of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: For transit business where no one gets on or off, would Dublin Airport be prepared to lose that or allow it to go to another airport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I am not talking about hubs. I mean when it is only a technical stop, landing for refueling. Is there any need for that to go through Dublin Airport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: That is my point. The witnesses had to come to Dublin for a job. I am trying to make it easier for the next wave but that does not happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I know but the critical mass and the dominance always draw more. I am trying to be helpful from an overall perspective. We are trying to look at policy generally and trying to take a slightly different direction in an effort to secure the future of the regions and recognising that the population is growing. To do that, we have to intervene. Maybe my language, in terms of "forcing", was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Steady on. Mr. Jacobs should go to his marketing department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I might be giving him ideas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: He is off to a good start.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Timmy Dooley: We promise to be as robust when the Senator is Cathaoirleach of the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the group from Aer Lingus. I appreciate their being with us. They are probably in a different position from some of their predecessors. They are here representing a private company. We are not its board and, therefore, I see our role as working with them to try to figure out how, collectively, we can do more for Ireland. My understanding, at least, of where we are trying to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Timmy Dooley: For Aer Lingus, then, it is the effort on the attractiveness of the area from a tourism perspective so it is about tourism attraction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Timmy Dooley: The likes of the Cliffs of Moher, the investment in tourism on Lough Derg, say, or the golfing facilities throughout Clare-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Is Aer Lingus committed to selling Shannon to the American market? We often hear information, some of it anecdotal, that there tends to be pressure to push everything into the hub and to let the tourists figure out how they will get there. Does Aer Lingus have a good marketing strategy that takes the best of what we have in the Wild Atlantic Way and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Yes, and I thank Aer Lingus for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Does Ms Embleton think there is anything more we can do in the off-peak or shoulder period and further into the winter period? I acknowledge that airlines have to reduce their transatlantic business during that period because the demand is not there. Is there anything we could do in terms of our tourism offering during that period that would make that attractive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Timmy Dooley: What about the crew base?