Regina Doherty (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for her acceptance of certain parts of the amendment but I want to ask some questions about the opposition she has. The Minister of State has rhymed off a very long list of stakeholders there and we could potentially have anything up to 100 people sitting around a large table in a large room, except we might not because we will not compel anybody to come and we will not tell them how many times per year that they possibly should come. I accept that the Minister of State might put that into a future amendment and I am grateful for that. I am concerned and perplexed by the fact that we will have a stakeholders' forum of anything up to 100 different types of organisations, as the Minister of State has indicated. This forum will then determine what the licenceholders charter will be. I am not sure why we would have airline training companies, mechanics or all the groups the Minister of State has detailed involved. That is with the exception of the regulatory experts and the regulatory authority, as they are the people who should determine what the charter for the licenceholders is, not the long list of people the Minister of State wants at the stakeholders' meeting. If the establishment of the forum is all about safety, why are we widening the net so much to people who have no knowledge or expertise whatsoever in the safety of aviation or in the regulation of same? Why would we want them at the table and what purpose will there be in them being at the table? What would their input be to creating the licenceholders charter?