Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2022-02-02
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Gerard P. Craughwell (IND), Labour Panel

I appreciate that. I was here, but I was called away. I am back now, though, and that is all that matters.
I wish to make an unusual request. I have not discussed it with any of my colleagues. In light of a letter that I received today from the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association, IALPA, a request that I have submitted to the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications, and the fact that the report on Rescue 116 was not published until after this Bill had commenced in the Dáil, we should suspend any further debate on it today, allow the committee to meet Captain Evan Cullen and listen to his concerns, and send the Bill back to the committee so that it can deal with the issues that we have raised by way of amendment. The Bill should not be passed as it stands.
I ask one of my colleagues to second this proposal.

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Sitting date: 2022-02-02