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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Our guests have been dealing with the Department of Transport for quite a number of years. Who is the aviation expert in the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: We are also entitled to hear if the captain and his members are engaging with aviators or with people who-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask our guests to explain in more detail their concerns around the Bureau Veritas report that the Minister referred to in the Dáil and Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Lighthouses are mentioned in IALPA's charts, as are some peaks, including on the Skelligs. The charts are very frightening. I believe the highest point of the Skelligs is 714 m tall and they are included in the chart at 147 m, if I am not mistaken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Are the Skelligs on a flight path into the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have a few questions about the issue of security. Anecdotally, I have been told about pilots having been handed packages by the company, for example. It might be cash that has been raised on an outward flight and it is given to them in a sealed bag to be brought home. That does not make for good security. Certainly, in my military career, I would not have taken a bag like that. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask the Chairman to forgive me for going over time but I sought a suspension of the debate in the Seanad because I am so deeply concerned about what is going on here. Will Mr. Cullen explain what is going with the local runway issue at Dublin Airport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: There are some suggestions that what IALPA is seeking cuts way across EU and ICAO regulations. Has the association taken any legal advice on its amendments? Can Mr. Cullen state, with hand on heart, that he knows IALPA is correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It has been said, as Mr. Cullen noted, that primary legislation is not the place for IALPA's amendments. If they are not included in primary legislation, how can we meet the needs of pilots, that is, the people who sit in the cockpit with 300 or 400 lives sitting behind them? I cannot emphasise enough the importance of the peer support group, which absolutely must be independent of every...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I accept we will discuss this as a committee in private session, but I believe the legislation should not progress until an independent aviation expert appears before us and explains why these amendments should not be made to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Mr. Brereton very much indeed for his time. I ask them to keep us in the loop as things move on. It is extremely important. It is the lives of passengers I am really interested in. These guys do a professional job but the passengers are the ones I am concerned for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Mr. Cullen very much indeed.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: My good friend and colleague, the late Senator, Feargal Quinn, welcomed my two grand-daughters, Ellie and Isabel, into the world when they were born. He is not here today so I have to welcome Alice, who was born into the world at 5 p.m. yesterday and wish her the best as she travels through the world.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces has reported. I know the Acting Leader, Senator O'Loughlin, will have an interest in that today. One of the things that can happen straight away is that they can follow through on the recommendation that the Permanent Defence Forces Representative Association, PDFORRA, and the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers, RACO, if it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank our guests for being with us today. Looking at the presentations that were made and the written work that was sent in, I have to say it is utterly depressing. As the brother of eight sisters, the father of a daughter and the grandfather of two beautiful granddaughters, it is utterly depressing to think that sexual violence is the way we fight wars and the way we deal with these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: For the people who follow these debates, the last few words Ms Kennedy uttered on the impact that sanctions would have on Concern's programme are extremely important. If I heard right, she was asking that sanctions, particularly in the area of education, be lifted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Ms Kennedy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: On the security issue in schools, in parts of Africa we have seen young men as young as ten or 11 years running around the place with Kalashnikov rifles. Violence seems to be the name of the game for them. Does Mr. Casey envisage the possibility of needing to have armed guards around the school to allow for a safe environment? I know the two things are mutually repugnant but the important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: On Ms Kennedy's point about sanctions, I ask that the committee write to the Department and ask that we make representation on the lifting of sanctions for education.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have some direct questions.