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- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: We must proceed or suspend again, and I do not particularly want to do that.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: Before I make my comments, the Minister of State has referred to the people who were consulted on Bills relating to all sorts of areas that have passed through the Houses of the Oireachtas. That is good, and I do not have a problem with that. However, I have a problem if we go to an agency and ask it to write the legislation to regulate itself. She spoke about search and rescue, SAR,...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: We are where we are a year later, and we are getting nowhere.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: We are on Committee Stage and I am entitled to make my points.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I am entitled to make the points I want to make today.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: If we are going to proceed with the Bill today, which I believe is ill-advised, I am going to make my points. Article 2.6 of the EASA basic regulation allows the Minister to opt in to certain provisions, activities and organisations. This is relevant, but with regard to sections 67 and 76, we have to give consideration to whether they reflect state-of-the-art and best practices in the field...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I am not an expert in the area, but I am being asked to put my name to this Bill by virtue of the fact that I have been involved in discussion on it. This will be the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton's, Bill when it goes onto the Statute Book properly and the bottom line is that none of us is expert enough to make judgments on some of the provisions in the Bill. Section 67 makes reference...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I know. I am just trying to bring it all together. These are the only areas that cause me difficulty. If we can iron those out, we can move on with the Bill. One of the biggest issues with the Bill is a lack of accountability for the chief executive. Legislation such as this is too important to allow for incompetence. The introduction of the pilot supports programme is a welcome...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: It is rather odd than in the context of SAR, an expert was brought in, if one can call a non-pilot, one-man operation an expert, to advise on this Bill. I am on record in this House, at committee and in correspondence with the Department of Transport as to the reservations I have over a one-man band providing any advice to the Department. The letter I got in response from the Department...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: When those two men or women get into the front of the aircraft and close the cockpit door, none of us will ever know what goes on in there until the aeroplane lands. Often, when one is flying somewhere, one sees a member of the cabin crew replacing a pilot while the latter pops out to the toilet or whatever, but we do not otherwise know what goes on. Like my colleagues, I want to know when...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: On a point of information-----
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: On a point of information, it is not the Chair who decides when the question is put. It is the Members who decide.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not dispute that.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I accept the Minister of State's bona fides on this-----
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: -----but the stakeholders' forum will include people other than pilots. We are arguing that pilots need to have their own forum.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 3c: In page 44, line 1, after “Minister” to insert “and the Houses of the Oireachtas”. We are adding a provision so that the planned submission to the Minister will also be submitted to the Houses. In this way, Oireachtas committees and so on can become involved in the plan. I will not delay any further on this other than to ask the...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: The issue of commercially sensitive details being contained in reports is being used constantly at Oireachtas committees and in the Houses. “Commercial sensitivity” is about other commercial entities.This is a problem for the Houses of the Oireachtas and the committees in the Oireachtas as much as for the Minister. We should be able to have access to information. Far too...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: It might not be the final one but it is a comment. I do not understand why alerting the organisations that in the business plan the regulator is about to do A, B or C or purchase A, B and C to carry out its function is an issue. Surely there is nothing wrong with people knowing they are going to be inspected. Surely there is nothing wrong with the regulator pre-advising people. It does...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: There is an awful lot of the word "distinguished" going on here today.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: Neither does anyone else.