Aviation Industry
Dail Éireann — 2021-03-24
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Duncan Smith (LAB), Dublin Fingal

Our concern is there will be thousands of workers who will be outside the industry and looking in at that recovery in a couple of years' time because they have been let go. The workers are asking for a safe return to travel, as we have all been asking for. We want a roadmap back with clearly defined public health guidelines and milestones. That is not easy, we know that, but the European Commission is working on a digital green pass, albeit there is a lot more detail to come on that. The Taoiseach stated earlier he is supportive of that and it is offering some light at the end of the tunnel. However, we need our Government to provide a proper roadmap. We do not need Government Senators pouring honey into the ears of workers out there when the Government of which they are a part is doing very little to provide a roadmap. Every single worker in the aviation industry, from the ground to the cockpit, knows they are going to be the last industry to come back. They know that and have known it since the former Taoiseach made his speech in Washington last year. Those workers want and deserve a roadmap. They also deserve supports because their jobs and livelihoods are going to be gone.

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Sitting date: 2021-03-24