Regina Doherty (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

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 deemed appropriate to put before the Houses of the Oireachtas? Whatever about the commercial sensitivities of taking in finances from airlines through air traffic control and so on, the safety functions of the new agency we are establishing in this legislation should be subject to transparency and oversight of both the Oireachtas committee system and Seanad and Dáil Éireann. I cannot for the life of me think what could be commercially sensitive in a report from the statutory regulatory body we are establishing as the new IAA.