Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

The European Commission has been working on an amending directive which will be submitted to the Council of Ministers of Transport in the near future. The new directive will amend the existing Council Directive 96/67/EC on which the 1998 regulations are based. When the amending directive is adopted by the Council, further regulation will be needed to transpose its provisions into Irish law. At that stage I will be prepared to consider sympathetically the Senator's suggestion for removing the need for prior approval by the aviation regulator as suggested in this amendment. That would be the appropriate time to deal with it.