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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes. Does it include military and defence for drones?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes, I think it does. The other thing is about jobs. Would Professor McCarthy agree that Manna coming in and replacing Deliveroo bike riders with drones is, first, not good for jobs and is certainly not good for the environment because the bikes the Deliveroo riders are using are perfectly environmentally acceptable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Okay. One of the other contributors said we have a wild west situation and Mr. Gavin quickly came in about the safety of the drones. What we are all talking about here is that there is a wild west for residents with regard to noise, privacy and their lives being upended. This is going to increase from 170,000 flights by Manna to 2 million, which is its target. It has just got investment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Nothing for noise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: They would have to fly higher to reduce the noise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I thank all the witnesses for attending. I do not have a lot of time, so I need quick answers, if possible. Are any of the witnesses living in Dublin 15 or an area where fast food drone delivery is taking place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Houston is living in Dublin 15. Okay. Manna begins its statement by saying its business is taking vehicles off congested roads, but that is not its business. Its business is drone delivery for profit. One of the issues - it is the big issue - is noise. It is not just decibel level that is a problem with noise. According to the EPA, there are different components, including tonal,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Okay. I had a meeting last night with 40 residents participating in it. That is the noise of the drone there. That is on my estate one Saturday morning. Would the witnesses agree that that is a lot more annoying than just a quiet conversation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: What is an appropriate way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I can only go by a resident living under a drone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Residents cannot go to Trinity College and ask researchers there to come out and assess the situation. I am giving the witnesses an honest representation of what it is like for residents living under drones. Manna plans to accelerate that for residents. The gap here in this whole session today is that there is no voice for residents. No disrespect to the engineers, but we should have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I am asking the academics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The witnesses are here today to discuss drone fast food delivery, not topography or anything like that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It would not deal with noise, though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Is Mr. Healy happy to see-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The issue is that this is a massive change in technology and in people's lives. We all agree that road transport can create poor quality of life, inequality and so on. The question is whether we want to transfer that to our skies. The most powerful argument that has been made by a resident is to ask whether our skies will become as busy as our roads? From the previous session here, the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes, I know but----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: For fast food?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I am.