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Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I have many distinct comments-----

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: -----but the first question I have for the Minister of State is on the basis of the statement she just made with regard to taking a different approach than relying on internal advice when we are looking at new functions for the IAA or, indeed, introducing new regulations for the IAA. The three amendments most of us are seeking to insert in the legislation relate to new regulations pertaining...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Can the Minister of State respond to the question I asked before she made her intervention?

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Why was a different approach taken with some sets of new regulations for the IAA versus other regulations for the IAA?

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: "Interesting" is a positive word. I am sorry to be pernickety. I certainly was not questioning the Minister of State's ability to contact the Irish Aviation Authority and to ask its advice. What I am asking is why the Minister of State took a different approach with regard to one set of new regulations she is introducing for the IAA around search and rescue but did not seem to deem it...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: -----licenceholders' charter and licenceholders’ forum. We have amendments from the Minister of State that somewhat waters down the licenceholders' forum to a stakeholders' forum. I must be honest in expressing some grave concerns with regard to importing the important structure and action of establishing a national peer support programme to a committee meeting that nobody will be...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Or women.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I know I am being pernickety and I apologise for being so. I am not suggesting there is a conflict with regard to the Minister of State approaching the IAA for advice. What I am asking about is based on her opening statement today whereby on occasions when the Minister of State introduces new pieces of legislation, she takes a different approach. What is the difference in the approach...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Minister of State said we have the same laws in Ireland as we do across the EU. I wish to put on the record that the inconsistency of the import of those laws is the reason we are all standing here having this conversation today. There is no uniformity of the import of the regulations of EASA. There is certainly no uniformity in the regulation of the IAA. I very much welcome the...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I welcome the Minister of State's acceptance of the amendment from my colleagues. I will make two points. First, the words "shall" and "may" are consistently used in legislation. They are a watered down version of telling someone or an organisation that it "has to" do something, which is a much stronger term than "will". I am not just saying this because it relates to a number of my later...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: The purpose of this Bill is to separate the current formation of the IAA into two structures, whereby there will be a separate commercial aspect of the authority and the regulatory side of it, which will be independent of commercial revenue and hence influence of airlines. What commercially sensitive information could the new safety regulatory authority have in any report that would not be...

Seanad: Planning and Development, Maritime and Valuation (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Now.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re the proposed approval by Seanad Éireann of a regulation of the regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; No. 2, motion re the arrangements for the address to the Seanad by Mr. Marty Walsh, US Secretary of Labor, on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: Now, now.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: There is certainly a lot to respond to. I thank Senator McGreehan for acknowledging the Minister for Foreign Affairs' work and the memo brought to Cabinet this morning, as others also did. I will speak more broadly on it when I get to respond to Senator Craughwell. Senator McGreehan's views on the events that happened last night are shared by everybody in the House. I read the story that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I thank Senator Gavan for his kind comments. I thank him personally and all the other Members of the House. I genuinely laughed when I heard him say that we finally have a left-right divide in this country. I know there are some incredibly decent left-leaning people in his party, but to call Sinn Féin a left-leaning party stretches incredulity to the limit-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: -----particularly given that one of Sinn Féin's leading Members, Deputy Ó Broin, has unashamedly called Sinn Féin a populist party. Those are his words not mine. Anyway, I thank Senator Gavan for his good wishes. The Defence Forces were brought up by Senator Conway who was also looking for clarity on CLÁR funding. He is looking for a debate in September on the ongoing...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: No child should be left waiting years for therapy and support from a trauma that they are suffering from arising from a sexual assault, sexual abuse or any sort of domestic violence. Such children should not even have to wait for weeks and I thank the Senator for raising this issue morning. I hope I speak on behalf of all of us to look for increased funding for CARI, the sole agency in the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Regina Doherty: I pay tribute to him. He is obviously a local hero and a cracking player and has a very good future ahead of him.