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

Timmy Dooley: Load factors are down to 38%. Mr. Wilson made the threat that he has many other locations to which he can take his aircraft. With the best of goodwill, I wonder where he will find locations for them. We will move on.

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

Timmy Dooley: Mr. Wilson should keep that information for the stock market.

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

Timmy Dooley: Go on.

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

Timmy Dooley: What is the population of Slovenia?

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

Timmy Dooley: When Mr. Wilson considers the significant reduction in activity around Europe, there are not too many opportunities.

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

Timmy Dooley: With the greatest of respect, Mr. Wilson is lecturing us a little bit so maybe he would accept the offer and come on.

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

Timmy Dooley: I will let the Minister answer for that.

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

Timmy Dooley: I will address the next question to Mr. Moriarty. Some of the staff at our airports are on reduced pay, temporarily laid off or both. Has Mr. Moriarty looked to engage with the HSE about having some of those staff members available to do contact tracing? Aer Lingus will not see much activity in those areas over the next number of months. Have Mr. Moriarty and his colleagues given any...

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

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Moriarty.

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

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the presentations from all concerned. It is good to see representatives of Shannon, Cork and Dublin airports back before us. I compliment them on the work they have done in the intervening period. They have moved pretty fast in addressing the potential for testing. They have provided many answers in advance of the questions being posed today, which is welcome. We can rightly...

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

Timmy Dooley: There is an element of see-saw because one would hope that when the aviation industry recovers, the necessity for testing and tracing will, hopefully, not be there by then.

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

Timmy Dooley: I refer to something Mr. Philips said. It is something I believe would have been the case heretofore, that is, this idea of losing a route and being unable to have it returned for probably three to five years. Would Mr. Philips accept that this is a very untypical situation? It is not as if an asset is being moved to another location. The fact is there will be, as part of the recovery,...

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

Timmy Dooley: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. Philips. Which country is closest to us in terms of that deeper level of restrictions being in place?

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...