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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank our guests for attending and for the work they have been doing during this period. Will they outline the financial difficulties their organisations are facing? How many employees do the DAA and Shannon Group have at the Dublin and Shannon airports and how many of them are on the temporary wage support scheme? Have there been any job losses during the pandemic?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not want to seek to many details in the context of matters that are the subject of privacy. However, will Mr. Gray indicate the proportion of the cash reserves that has had to be used?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Both organisations pay significant amounts in rates. There is the rates waiver but I appreciate that it merely involves not incurring a cost rather than managing to achieve a saving.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to discuss some of the experiences within the airports, particularly Dublin. Other members will focus on Shannon and Cork. I am interested in the number of people who have been coming through Dublin Airport. Obviously, there has been an enormous fall-off in passenger numbers. From what locations have people been coming through the airport in the past couple of months? There are...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is that-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I apologise for interrupting. We are not in the same room so we cannot see each other. The number of people coming through per day was 600 to 700, so when did it increase to 15,000?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: So there are 200 flights per day at the moment and, by the sound of it, that has increased from two or three flights per day in June.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course. I am sorry. Excuse me.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Will Mr. Gray just talk me through the experience people travelling through the airport in both directions are having? Reference was made to an evidence-based model whereby people would provide proof of testing negative for Covid two or three days prior to travelling. What is the current position and what does Mr. Gray envisage doing in order to increase passenger numbers again?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I presume the DAA is keeping travellers spaced apart when they are going through security and everything else.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What liaisons, if any, does the DAA have with the airlines once a passenger gets on the plane about the protection for passengers there? Is that entirely left to the airline to resolve? Is there any communication on that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We will have Aer Lingus and Ryanair in front of us later so I am sure those questions will come up. There have been reports in the media this week about PPS numbers being collected and I saw Dublin Airport tweeting that they were not sharing passenger information with third parties. Will Mr. Gray talk us through his read on what is going on?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Gray.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No, that is fine.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Does Ms Considine want to respond?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will ask one more question if I might. I do not wish to conform to the stereotypes of Dublin versus rural Ireland which are reflected in politicians but I am sure that my colleagues from County Clare will in fact ask plenty of questions of Shannon Group as well. My question is on the PPE transit work that was done at an early stage. I ask Mr. Gray to talk us through the work that his...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Durkan for sharing time. I draw to the attention of the Minister of State the importance, in establishing this new Department, of remembering those people with intellectual disabilities and their participation in third level education. They should be given the same opportunity to participate as everybody else, which in turn can lead to full participation, where it is...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On consumer confidence and some months forward when, hopefully, travel is resumed at close to normal levels, what do the witnesses think is a realistic timeframe for the recovery of the business, once travel is opened up to a reasonable degree? When one thinks back to the post-9/11 period, the recovery was slow. Covid-19 has had a much greater impact on the aviation industry and airlines....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Those are interesting points on security and adapting quickly to new ways of doing things. Similarly, we have adapted to all of the new measures but an aeroplane is a confined and close-contact space.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank our guests for attending and for their submissions, in particular where they outlined the concerns about Dublin Airport. Earlier we heard concerns about the aviation industry in Dublin Airport, but it is really important that our guests in this session have set out the experience and difficulty they are having. Coming away from the economics of the matter, I turn to the issue of...