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Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Not commenting on a live tender is allowing the Minister of State to pull down the curtain of secrecy over expenditure by this State. The taxpayers of the State will pay for this. We paid through the bloody nose for the last one, we did not get the regulation we should have got and four people have lost their lives. What is the expertise of the individual in question? As far as I am...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 4A: 77 a. In page 55, to delete lines 37 to 41 and substitute the following: “(2) On an annual basis, and whenever so requested, the Chief Executive or a relevant officer shall account for the performance of the company’s functions to a Committee or both Houses of the Oireachtas and the company shall have regard to any recommendations of such Committee...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: We have debated this Bill for quite a considerable period of time and I am anxious that it would pass Committee Stage and give us time go back to a critical issue and that is the issue of peer support. I understand how far the Minister has come and all I ask is that we finish the Committee Stage and between now and the Report Stage, that we have an opportunity to engage on the issue of peer...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Before we come to Report Stage.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I accept the Mininster's bone fides.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I want to thank the Estonian ambassador, H.E. Kairi Künka, who set up a visit for me two weeks ago to a number of interesting cybersecurity places in Tallinn for the Louth Meath Education and Training Board to go out and see how a cybersecurity centre of excellence actually operates. With that in mind, I want to thank the NATO centre which brought us in and showed us its system. CR14...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: No pensions.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Who pays the money?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Yesterday, we had a debate on the issue of search and rescue procurement. Most of those who spoke agreed that there were questions to be answered and called on the Minister of State to answer them. The Minister of State was aware of the questions I have been asking since August. I asked them on the floor of the House yesterday because they needed to be asked. The Minister of State was not...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that.

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

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 3f: In page 45, to delete lines 5 to 7 and substitute the following: “ “(bb) The Minister shall cause a copy of a report under paragraph (a) to be published in such form and manner as he or she considers appropriate.”.”.

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...