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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry but the Chairman has said that the problem is not lack of regulation by Ms Mannion's organisation's and that it lies with this House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: -----but it has the power to regulate and to tell Ryanair to inform its passengers that they are entitled to re-route on another airline. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Can Ms Mannion say that would include ensuring, as the CAA did, that Ryanair informs passengers that they have an entitlement to be re-routed on other airlines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry. Will Ms Mannion just answer "Yes" or "No"? Does she agree with the CAA-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: She is not answering my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: May I clarify a point on this line of questioning before we move away from the regulator?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: If the regulation is so open to interpretation, as Ms Barton claimed it is, then was it not the case that in Britain the Civil Aviation Authority's chief executive, Mr. Haines, threatened legal action to enforce the regulation, and by the 5 o'clock deadline on whatever date it was, Ryanair had complied? Knowing Ryanair as Ms Barton does and in light of the earlier comment made that it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Was Mr. O'Connor aware that it was handed to the Minister, Deputy Ross, some time ago?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Minister, Deputy Ross, has not informed the commission about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: He has not asked the commission about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Would that be normal practice with every airline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: So every airline carries the minimum fuel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Does Mr. O'Connor not believe the captain comes under pressure from the airline to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I will ask the pilots that when they come before us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I believe it is. I also believe that a petition was submitted to the commission stating that they felt pressurised. Is this correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: My understanding is that it came in in 2008.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Why was Ryanair given until January 2018 to be compliant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is a question rather than a point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: It does not actually. Yesterday, there was a plenary session in Strasbourg involving dozens of very irate MEPs from all over Europe. The whole discussion was about Ryanair and how badly the transition has been managed. Mr. Courtney might say that is Ryanair's problem but it is the Irish Aviation Authority that oversees this, so that does not add up. Neither does it add up to say that over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Courtney for that. I have one final question for him with regard to EASA and its response to the fact that Ryanair and Aer Lingus were the only two airlines in Ireland that were applying a different calendar year. My information is that every other country in Europe was applying the January to December calendar year. Was EASA alarmed or concerned that there were two airlines in...