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Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 3g: In page 45, line 11, after “Minister” to insert “and the Oireachtas”.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 3h: In page 45, to delete lines 38 and 39.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 3i: In page 46, to delete lines 13 to 21 and substitute the following: “ “(2) The first Chief Executive appointed after the commencement of section 68of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 2021shall be appointed by the Minister for a period not exceeding 5 years and may, after consultation with the directors of the company, be removed from office...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I will press the amendment.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I am trying to get my thoughts together.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have not quite figured out what I want to say, but I might start talking in a few minutes. I invite my colleagues to step in ahead of me.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I will allow the Minister of State to respond.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State but there are a number of issues here. First, having the Minister appoint a chief executive officer to the IAA when the Minister does not have aviation expertise within his or her Department is a matter of great concern. In fact, I am deeply concerned about anything that goes on in the Department of Transport at the moment while we are without aviation...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: To go back, we are talking about employing a chief executive officer for the Irish Aviation Authority. We do not have anybody in the Department who has aviation expertise to assist in the short-listing of any curriculum vitae that might arrive in applications for the job. We do not have anybody on the State appointments commission that I am aware of who is an aviator who can attest to or...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Four people are dead and there is no aviation expert. We are now talking about appointing a new CEO to the IAA who will be responsible for regulation. I have difficulty with the way things are going. Will there be an aviation expert available to the Department - an employee of the Department, paying PAYE, PRSI, pension contributions and so on - to attest to and short-list any applications...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I need to ask a question. I understand what the Minister of State says when she talks to us all the time about the expertise that is available in the IAA. Two things have come together rather unfortunately in the middle of this Bill; one is my amendment and the other is the impending departure of the CEO of the IAA. Surely to God the IAA experts cannot advise the Department on the...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It is really important.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State has never explained to me when they are going to have an expert within their own staff.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I think it is important to put it on the record.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It is important. The Minister of State has pointed out that the Public Appointments Service will make the appointment aided and abetted by a contractor, an executive search company.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It is clear as mud.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Legislation that was brought in after the financial crisis, which was understandable in some ways, made a lot of changes to how superannuation works so there are people now paying into superannuation who cannot benefit from same. I ask the Minister of State to bring this matter back to her colleagues in the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform because I...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I want to check something with the Minister of State. Are amendments Nos. 7aand 7bbeing brought in as a result of the air accident investigation unit report which stated that the IAA was uncertain as to its role with respect to SAR?

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 3l: In page 48, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “(4) (a) An annual audit shall be conducted by the IAA of Ireland’s compliance with ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices. (b) The audit shall identify those ICAO standards that Ireland does not comply with. Where non-compliance with an ICAO standard is identified the audit will...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I refer to what Senator Doherty said. I reported earlier in the year that there were about 44 recommendations from the AAIU that were outstanding and there was no answer whatsoever as to what had happened. This is precisely what Senator Doherty is talking about, that is, reporting mechanisms. After I spoke about the fact that these matters were all open with the AAIU report, within a very...