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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: There was an issue with the Senators in that they were celebrating their centenary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Further engagement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank captains Evan and Brereton for attending today’s engagement with the committee. The committee will now deliberate on the best approach. It will be one of going back to the Minister and the Department for further engagement to see if we can devise legislation that everyone can buy-in to. That is the key thing. I thank the witnesses for their engagement. I was a bit...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Missions (10 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: 115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the destinations for official trade missions planned by his Department for 2022. [7071/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Promotion (10 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: 135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the recent activity by his Department and agencies such as Bord Bia to open new markets for Irish food producers. [7070/22]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Apologies have been received from Deputy Carey and Deputy Dillon may substitute in his place. Today we will be considering 2022 Revised Estimates. This is a special select committee meeting. The purpose of our meeting today is to consider the following Revised Estimates for public services: programme D of Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications, and Vote 31 - Transport. I remind...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the clerk, Pádraig, for that. He is on the ball. As I said, it is just for the record. We now move to Members. I call Deputy O'Connor.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: By way of clarification, and for the record, the first paragraph of the Minister's opening statement reads "the 2022 Estimate for the Department of Transport and for programme A". Should that read "programme D" rather than "programme A"? It is probably a typo.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to make two quick points. The first is that when the national cybersecurity issue arose with the HSE, the committee wrote to all Departments to ask that they isolate cybersecurity costs. The Minister referred to the fact that each Department now has a role in the context of cybersecurity spending. I know the National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, is under the Department of the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: We accept that. When the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, appeared before the committee, he made the point that the amount that is down as spent on cybersecurity is probably far higher than what is allocated to the NCSC itself, so the committee made a recommendation. We wrote to all Departments to ask that they isolate as a spending item money spent on cybersecurity. One would then...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: That will probably be within the Shannon oceanic transition area, SOTA, the northern oceanic transition area, NOTA, and the Shannon flight information region, FIR, which are the areas that we currently have under our-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Shannon.