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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Of course, the US, from a European perspective, is closed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that and I think I made the point at an earlier session that if representatives of the clothing retail sector were before us, I suspect they would feel they were carrying an undue burden too. I suspect they would make the point that some of the airlines made, namely, that there are no cases of transmission of the virus in a clothes shop, in the same way as Mr. Wilson sought to sort...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: That did not stop Mr. Wilson.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: We have to take everything into perspective. Ms Considine will be familiar with some of the geography I talk about but if one lives in Tulla, as I do, and somebody else is living in Lissycasey in west County Clare, there are more than 5 km between us. At the moment we are being told we cannot travel between those two locations so there is that difficulty with saying we should open up the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: That is the point I am making, lest those who are watching this committee think that somehow we are suggesting that all this should be taking place in the current restrictions. We are looking at the short to medium term to have our ducks in a row when the suppression rates improve and where NPHET is at a point where it is able to recommend to Government an easing of our domestic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I thank both parties for their important evidence today. Mr. Cornelis will have heard Mr. Brandon of the Irish Aviation Authority talk about the weaknesses in the traffic light system. Perhaps Mr. Cornelis will talk to us, from his vantage point, about how he thinks that might be strengthened or what the likelihood is of getting a more harmonised approach at EU level. There is no point in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Cornelis.

Seanad: Parliamentary Precincts and Privilege: Motion (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I move: That, for the avoidance of doubt, office premises ordinarily occupied by staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission shall be considered to form part of the parliamentary precincts for the purpose of the giving of evidence by witnesses, by means of such specified videoconferencing platform as may be approved and provided by the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, to any...

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister to the House. Fianna Fáil is happy to support the legislation, which probably does not come as a big surprise to the Minister. We support it because it is technical in nature and is required due to the transposition of the EU directive that the Minister has identified. Like the Minister, I am somewhat concerned that it has taken so long to get the legislation to...

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I am digressing a little to broaden the point but I will conclude and bring it all back. The Cathaoirleach need not worry about that.

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I will try to bring it back on track as soon as possible. It is very important to continue our effort to invest substantial amounts of capital moneys in our infrastructure. Public transport is under pressure at present because of the necessity for separation and due to level 5 measures, we have been obliged to reduce to 25% the usage of the facilities but we should be looking to the medium...

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: She is a formidable lady.

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: It is not a plan anyway.

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Now.

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Now.

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Now.

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Motion for Earlier Signature (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I move: That, pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: It is regrettable, in the first instance, that we in the House have to bring forward legislation such as this. It is symptomatic of a desire on the part of certain people to ignore the basic guidelines. Looking through the window of where society currently is, there is the zero-Covid side on one extreme and, on the other, the herd immunity analysis. The reality is that most people are...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: A great colleague at that.