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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: The purpose of the meeting is to hear from IAG on its takeover bid for Aer Lingus in order to establish the likely repercussions of the potential sale of Aer Lingus to it. International Consolidated Airlines Group SA is a Spanish business corporation registered in Spain. I welcome from IAG Mr. Willie Walsh, chief executive, and Mr. Finbarr Griffin. Having heard from the unions and other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I thank Mr. Walsh. We have had a series of meetings in the lead-up to today's meeting. As Mr. Walsh has said, questions and concerns were raised at those meetings. We met representatives of various trades unions, IBEC, chambers of commerce, tourism interests, IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and so forth. They raised questions relating to jobs, connectivity, the possible impact on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Thank you, Mr. Walsh. We will have party spokespeople first, who will be given three minutes to ask questions. We will get a response to those questions and then they will be given one minute to respond. We will call all committee members first and then Deputies and Senators who are not committee members. To get the maximum benefit from this meeting, I ask members to confine themselves to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I am moving on to Deputy Seán Kenny. I would ask members not to ask questions that have already been asked so that we can get new information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Both of you have used your extra minute so I will go to Deputy Fitzmaurice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: That has been answered already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: We will now move on to the rest of the members. The next speaker is Deputy Tom Fleming followed by-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I know that and Deputy Tom Fleming is one also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: No. What I said is that we will move on to the rest of the members. We have just finished with the lead spokespeople.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I would never forget about the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: The next speaker is Deputy Tom Fleming followed by Deputy Walsh and they will have two minutes to put their questions and a further minute to come back in after their questions have been answered. I will bring in the rest of the members in groups of two speakers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Thank you Deputy. I call Deputy Walsh and we will get a response to the two Deputies' questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: The Deputy has used the extra minute he has before he has got a response to his questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I had understood that the PSOs were just yearly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: We will turn to Senator Mooney.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: I am going to allow non-members of the committee to join in the discussion. It will be Deputies Joe Carey, Michael McNamara and Jerry Buttimer, in that order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Okay-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Ten seconds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Maybe Mr. Walsh could address Deputy Regina Doherty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
John O'Mahony: Senator Mulcahy wants to come in for 30 seconds.