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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: I thank Mr. Thompson. I now call Deputy Dooley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: You will get a chance to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: I will come back to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: No. I will not deal with it now. I gave you the time to speak, Deputy Dooley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: You will be entitled to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: Deputy O'Donovan, please do not refer to any other Deputy for the remainder of your questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: I want to run this in an orderly fashion. I am giving everyone a full chance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: If Mr. Thompson wishes, he can supply the information to the committee and we will circulate it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: I presume the use of independent expertise is ongoing in the background. That would not be relevant to the function of this committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: The Government obviously wants to do the best deal for Ireland so I presume it will have all that expertise and independence at hand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: Yes, and the Deputy has made his point in that regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: We will consider all the discussions we have had in private and make recommendations to feed into the debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: I am conscious that people wish to ask supplementary questions and I will allow that after Mr. Thompson responds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: Members, including me, want to ask some supplementary questions. I ask that the questions be direct as we want to maintain a bit of decorum.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: Any analysis we have of this discussion can be done in private session and I will say the same to any other Deputy here. The nature of committees is that we are cross-party and we put direct questions to witnesses who are entitled to come in to us, and whom we welcome to come in to us, but we do not make a political football within committees. That is the strength of committees and, as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: On the further information which Mr. Thompson does not have with him today, perhaps he could follow up with that as much as he can?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: I will hand over to Deputy Ellis in a moment, but I first want to pose a couple of supplementary questions based on the discussion as it has evolved. Mr. Thompson referred to Virgin Atlantic's reluctance to come into Ireland and stated the reasons for that from lessons learned in the UK. My impression is that there is already competition among a number of airlines coming into or flying from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: Mr. Thompson is effectively ruling out Virgin Atlantic flying into Ireland, no matter what decision is made going forward.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: I have two final brief questions. Who is Virgin Atlantic's biggest feed partner, as we are today? We have spoken a lot about feed partners and deals, but who is Virgin Atlantic's biggest feed partner today? Mr. Thompson may not be able to answer this from a commercial point of view, but what would Virgin Atlantic's options be with regard to Ireland, first, if the deal goes ahead and,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)
John O'Mahony: I would have thought that British Airways would be Virgin Atlantic's biggest feed partner.