Regina Doherty (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to speak on amendments Nos. 1 or 2 but on the question Senator Craughwell has raised. In an attempt to be helpful, I wrote to the chief executive of the AAIU, Captain Jurgen Whyte, with regard to the two direct recommendations of the AAIU on a lack of in-house expertise in the Department of Transport and the IAA. Unfortunately, due to the existing legislation, he is not in a position to be open and transparent with regard to the status of the recommendations made of anybody with regard to the report on Rescue 116. To be helpful, when the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, was here yesterday on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, he said all of the 14 requests made of the Department by the AAIU had been responded to and will be published on the Government's website very shortly.If we could get that publication sooner rather than later, it might help with some of the roadblocks. There are very obvious roadblocks. This is crucial legislation. It is so crucial because it literally means the difference between life and death. That is why we are taking it so seriously.