Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

First, just to clarify, we have oversight by ICAO and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, EASA, and obviously we want to continuously improve. The IAA has accepted all of the recommendations of the air accident investigation report. It is important to reiterate that. I said this previously in this House.

We all have the same goal, which is ensuring that we have best practice and best oversight. We have EASA carrying out that oversight, as well as ICAO. I wish to reassure Senators that oversight is there. This is a constant, continuous monitoring compliance process. There are continuous checks and a checklist for standards and recommendation practices. It is part of EASA - the EASA rulemaking programme. EASA also provides pre-filled ICAO compliance checklists to each member state to address the status of EASA regulations against the latest ICAO annex amendments. In addition, there is the section 32 review that I spoke about earlier. It will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and be presented to the Minister.