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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...it will not be business as usual straight away and that airports will consolidate around key hubs. For Aer Lingus that is Dublin and, perhaps, increasingly Manchester rather than Shannon and Cork. Obviously, Ireland is not a Schengen state. Schengen states will pretty soon allow in American passengers who are vaccinated and can show they are vaccinated. However, am I right in saying...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (21 Apr 2021)

Michael McNamara: 888. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when both the Cork and Dublin passport offices will reopen to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20517/21]

Central Mental Hospital (Relocation) Bill 2020: Second Stage (10 Dec 2020)

Michael McNamara: ..., it was not being considered, because it was not being collated at the time. There are two State agencies the role of which is to collate the data. One of them, the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland in Cork, could not do so because its staff were not considered essential workers during the first lockdown. They have since resumed collating the data, both retrospectively and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...of published data. Peer review and transparency are central to any scientific response. I want to focus in particular on the data on mental health. The National Self-Harm Registry Ireland in Cork ceased functioning for the duration of the first lockdown. At the end of August, it started to collect data again, both prospectively and retrospectively, but at the time of the second...

Regional Airports: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...of the national economy and the importance of maintaining connectivity to the regions; is deeply concerned at the imminent crisis facing Irish airports, in particular, Shannon, Knock,Kerry, Donegal and Cork airports; and recognises that transatlantic flights to and from Shannon can be operated with a reduced carbon footprint per passenger compared to those operated from Dublin Airport,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 373. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when both the Cork and Dublin passport offices will reopen to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23951/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...representatives from the Health and Safety Authority. From SIPTU, I welcome Mr. Greg Ennis, manufacturing division organiser. From the Independent Workers' Union, I welcome Ms Nora Labo of the Cork Operative Butchers Society. I wish to advise our guests that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...school of nursing, psychotherapy and community health at Dublin City University, DCU; and Professor Patricia Kearney, professor of epidemiology at the school of public health in University College Cork, UCC. Joining us from London on a link is Professor Susan Michie, professor of health psychology and director of the centre for behavioural change, University College London. Is the link...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Michael McNamara: One can drive from London to Edinburgh to Stranraer to Banbridge without any checks whatsoever. One can drive from Banbridge to west Cork without any customs checks.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...time to be with us and for staying with us notwithstanding the technological difficulties. I also thank Mr. O'Brien and Professor Staines for coming in and Professor Kearney for travelling from Cork to be with us. With that, I will draw the session to a close. I wish to inform members before we formally adjourn that we will meet the Minister not next week but the week after. I think...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...it. There are five minutes left. I will split my time with Deputy Duncan Smith who wants to come back in. Do the witnesses think that Shannon Airport was treated differently from Dublin and Cork Airports by the airlines in terms of prioritising the limited connectivity that remained in the State in response to Covid?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...and tourism via our airports. On 18 June, the Taoiseach said of Shane Ross, the former Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, "I don't think he gets the regions ... both Shannon and Cork have huge roles to play [if we are to be serious about] rebalancing the [State]." Today Shannon Airport is seeking redundancies. Some Shannon Heritage sites are closed, and others are closing at the...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (27 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...will vote for Deputy Micheál Martin and his Government to face those challenges and I will hold them to account in how they do so. I am aware that Deputy Micheál Martin is justifiably proud of Cork, its heritage and its political traditions. Notwithstanding what is in the programme for Government and what is not, I ask that he govern in the republican tradition, pursue the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...a number of years ago. However, it has been confirmed by Aer Lingus management that the staff who have given a lifetime of work to Shannon Airport will be relegated to a much lesser status than those at Cork and Dublin Airports. It is not fair or right. I appreciate that Aer Lingus is a private company, and I expect that will be the Minister’s response. However, it is somehow...

Covid-19 (Transport, Tourism and Sport): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...independent in that regard, I do not have much hope for it. If it is to be comprised of the people who persuaded him that a third terminal at Dublin Airport was a good idea while the terminals at Cork Airport and, to an even greater extent, Shannon Airport lay empty, and that a second runway at Dublin Airport was essential even though there is a second runway at Shannon Airport and the...

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...hospitals have not been as overwhelmed as we feared and those private hospitals have not been working to capacity or anything like it. I believe the Minister gave figures for the Bon Secours in Cork. Will he confirm that 142 beds are being used in the hospital at present out of its 300-bed capacity and that it is the hospital which is being most used? All the others are working at even...

Irish Economy: Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...of people travelling through a busy airport in order to reduce the number of people meeting each other. The Government should examine now whether the other State airports, particularly Shannon and Cork, can be utilised more if we are going to bring people into the country in order to ensure that they are not funnelled into one airport with the obvious risk of transmission that would...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...at Heathrow. The fact that there is no new runway at Heathrow is one of the main reasons IAG is interested in Dublin in the first place. While it may well offer opportunities for Shannon and Cork, and I certainly hope it does, that is only if IAG is interested in Dublin and Shannon. It is not that clear. There is very scant and aspirational information contained in the indicative offer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...One was the question of the two transatlantic flights, one going to the east coast and one to the west coast. Where are they going? Can I have a simple answer? Is it Dublin, Shannon, Belfast or Cork?

Topical Issue Debate: Airport Landing Slots (20 Jan 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...I acknowledge that this debate could easily be portrayed as parochialism or being about one's own backyard, but it is about a lot more than that. It is not simply about Shannon; it also is about Cork and about regional development, because both Cork and Shannon rely on connectivity to Heathrow in a way Dublin does not. Second, there is a greater risk to the slots from Cork and Shannon to...