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- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: Does the Minister of State have somebody on the staff?
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: Does the Department have an aviation expert on the staff?
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I am sorry, but it is not a question of whether I like the response or not. We are passing legislation through this House-----
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: The air accident investigation report criticises the fact that the Department depends on contractors to provide advice and states clearly that the Department needs to have an in-house expert. I ask again if there is such an in-house expert in aviation.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: No, she said that she has access to people with expertise who are contractors. I am asking if there is an employee of the State working in the Department of Transport who is an aviation expert.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: Okay.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: That is grand.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: Returning to the stakeholder forum the Minister of State spoke of, if we were to call a meeting of that group we would probably need a hotel to accommodate the representatives from all the different agencies mentioned. The key thing is that pilots have concerns about lighting at airports when they are landing and taking off, as well as concerns about various other things. The Minister of...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: A peer support group is vital, particularly in light of the crash in the Alps some years ago. Part of the rationale behind a peer support group is that people are dealing with others of similar qualifications to themselves and dealing with people who can treat them in a confidential manner, and they can deal with people who are one step removed from the management of the organisation. Let...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I want the Minister of State to answer the question concerning whether there are people with aviation expertise in her Department. I want this answer. The other thing-----
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 2: In page 40, after line 37, to insert the following: “Amendment of Act of 1993 - Licence Holders Charter 59.The Act of 1993 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 14: “Licence Holders Charter 14B.(1) For the purpose of ensuring that the system of authorisation and licensing is operated in an integrated and...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: The Air Accident Investigation Unit report into the fatal crash of Rescue 116 and the loss of four very brave search and rescue operators and the subsequent inquest have laid bare the failures of the contract, oversight and all of the agencies involved. It goes back to when the contract was put together. The absence of aviation expertise in both the Department of Transport and the Irish...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: We need to have a debate on that.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: With regard to the NCT, it is illegal to drive a car that does not have an up-to-date NCT. The Minister needs to make a statement that will protect citizens.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I know.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (15 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: Oh my God.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Accident Investigations (15 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State is welcome to the House. I think this is the first time I addressed him since he was elevated to ministerial office. I am delighted he is here, and I understand the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is unwell with Covid-19 and I wish him well, but it is deeply regrettable the junior Minister at his Department is not here to take this issue. The Minister of...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Accident Investigations (15 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: I wonder how we are allowing a Department with no aviation expertise to have any hand, act or part in the next SAR tender services and how we are allowing the Department or the Irish Coast Guard to lead out on the next SAR. Within days of the PQQ to which the Minister of State adverted in his reply being issued, it had to be extended because of the change from three bases to four bases. We...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2022)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.