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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Does Mr. Philips not accept that it is worrying that there are no checks and balances?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: We all make mistakes and, my God, I have made plenty of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I do not want to blame anyone and it is not about mistakes. This is a key process so there should be checks and balances. A situation should never reach a point where one must apologise. Maybe someone in the chain of command says he or she messed up but somebody else will catch it. To have such a critical error that led to such consequences, financial for the DAA and disruption for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I get that. We had the Irish Aviation Authority in the other day. The IAA is responsible for the way planes fly and it cannot have an off day because if that happens then 30 aircraft will crash into each other. The DAA seems to have a more lax approach. I say that because I have not got a sense from Mr. Philips or his team that the DAA has a response or drill available. When the muck hits...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I get that but Mr. Philips is missing the point. We all know things happen. When they do happen, there should be a response. I do not get the sense from Mr. Philips that there was a plan in place to deal with this. We all get inconvenienced. I have missed flights, had layovers and been delayed. I have worked and lived in the real world and travelled a lot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: There have been some learnings. I get that. I thank Mr. McLean for that. I have a concern about the way in which the security lanes operate. We have all had experience of different airports. Terminal 2 is outdated. It was outdated when it was built. Based on what I have seen at other airports, I do not believe there is enough space. People have to snake around. The point from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I will finish on this but the airlines go where there is a critical mass of passengers. Mr. Philips knows that better than I. He knows as well as I do that in a capital city, with Dublin Airport's volume of passengers, the DAA has the airlines.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: It could be much better in terminal 2 as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: It is marginally better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: That is not the question. Of course, the equipment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: The equipment is in compliance. I am not questioning that. However, the DAA representatives have been through other airports as well. They go to various different shows and conferences and they see what is out there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I will be brief. I sincerely thank the Minister of State for what she has achieved. In 2016, when I was the Opposition spokesperson on this issue, I and others, through engagement with the Irish Postmasters Union, An Post and others, produced a paper which circulated as Fianna Fáil policy. It spoke about the provision of a public service obligation. The genesis of that was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Unfortunately, I have to leave to speak in the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome Mr. Henry, whom I have known for some time. He has been before committees of these Houses previously and has a good understanding of the issues in the mid-west and the west generally. He said that he is in there, having a look around and will be back in due course. What would be success for him? He is a man driven by success. He has been very successful in virtually...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Timmy Dooley: All the better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Mr. Henry will have longer than some of us will have here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Timmy Dooley: That is not a bad approach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Timmy Dooley: That is really important. I thank Mr. Henry for that. I believe he has answered it correctly. Far too many people who have appeared before this committee in the past have talked about Shannon Group. Shannon Group has been used as a methodology of hiding the failure of the entire entity to increase passenger traffic. The whole thing is about aviation, but when Shannon Development was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Timmy Dooley: We will work with Mr. Henry on that. I am not asking him to commit to anything. However, I do not want to hear on Clare FM some morning or read a national press release with another line of slurry about how great the group is doing because there is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Timmy Dooley: That can be spun out. If a policy decision must be taken to spin out the property aspect and allow it be privatised, that is fine. Mr. Henry should not lose sight of this and he should not take the Kool-Aid that he may be presented with in certain quarters of society. The only thing that matters to the people who vote for Deputies McNamara, Carey, Cathal Crowe, me and whoever else is a...