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Seanad: Biodiversity: Motion (5 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I wish to share time with Senator Malcolm Byrne. I welcome the Minister of State. Fianna Fáil welcomes this opportunity to discuss solutions to the ongoing biodiversity crisis and will support the motion proposed by the Green Party. I compliment my colleagues on it. The rate of global change in nature during the past 50 years is unprecedented in human history. Nature across most of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister. The best-case predictions for a recovery in air passenger activity seem to suggest that it will take until 2023 or 2024 to get back to 2019 levels. If that is borne out, I would have very serious concerns regarding the future viability of airports such as Shannon. The Minister indicated that the Government can and will do more. I ask him to expand on that and give...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I am sorry, but may I ask the Minister a specific question because I know time is running short? Has consideration been given to funding airlines to service key routes to important destinations which might otherwise not be profitable to recognise their importance to the region, although demand is low? I refer particularly to direct access to London Heathrow and the east coast of the United...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome Dr. Holohan, Dr. De Gascun and Mr. Morris and thank them for their ongoing work on behalf of the Irish people. I am going to put a few things to our guests that we have heard from others who know more about the aviation sector than I do. Mr. Eddie Wilson of Ryanair was recently before the committee. He sought to paint Ireland's approach to the movement of people in a rather dark...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: It would be useful if Dr. Holohan provided that to us in written form at a later stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Have any peer-reviewed studies been done on the work NPHET does and what is done in other countries?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: That is okay. Fire ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: It would be helpful to get that message out because a charge is made, one which does not reflect well on either the witnesses or us, that Ireland has the strictest regime in place and we are largely responsible for locking down aviation across Europe. The numbers from EUROCONTROL clearly negate those statements so it would be helpful to get that message out there. Perhaps Dr. Holohan will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: I am out of time. I would appreciate if Dr. Holohan could provide us with the information so we can reflect it in our report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: The information would be helpful in addressing, to some extent, the public concern about us being out of kilter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: A certain cohort of the population has come to the view that Covid will not affect it, and this obviously influences the behaviour of people in that group. Do the witnesses see any value in publishing the ages of those who have passed and the ages of those in ICUs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: The mean age. Yes, I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: Beyond young.

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

Timmy Dooley: I thank our guests for the comprehensive presentations they set out, on behalf of their sector, in a strong way. I expect that if we had people from the hospitality or retail sectors before us, we would hear similar passion about the reopening of their sectors. It is a fact at the moment that Ireland is, under the traffic light system, considered to be in a red zone. Can our guests...

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

Timmy Dooley: I am talking about-----

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

Timmy Dooley: I am asking in terms of quarantine.

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

Timmy Dooley: If one looks at-----

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

Timmy Dooley: I get from where Mr. Wilson is coming in terms of protecting his industry. If he looks at the issue from our perspective-----