Deasy, Austin

Thursday, 15 December 1988

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 385 No. 8

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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Airport Passenger and Cargo Handling.

This deal behind closed doors stinks to high heaven. Does the Minister condone this deal? As Deputy Hussey has pointed out, Aer Lingus were able to reduce their charges by 30 per cent when there was...More Button

Is the Minister saying that Ryanair would have been incapable of providing the service at Dublin Airport?More Button

Can we have an assurance that when the three-year period expires the Minister will allow open competition?More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Travel Trade Competition.

asked the Minister for Tourism and Transport if he has satisfied himself that fair competition exists in the travel trade (a) within this State and (b) to and from this State; and if not, the plans, i...More Button

I was not specifically referring to tour operators or travel agents but to State companies who seem to think they have a right to put private operators out of business by charging totally uneconomic f...More Button

It is not free enterprise. The taxpayers are subsidising a State company to put private operators out of business. Surely that is not fair. I do not mind if it is done on a promotional basis for a s...More Button

Will the Minister convey to the State companies involved that he is concerned? Will he investigate the matter to see if what started out as a promotional activity has continued as an operation to put...More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Waterford-London Air Service.

asked the Minister for Tourism and Transport if he has received an application from Aer Lingus to operate services from Waterford airport to London; and, in view of their performance in recent times o...More Button

There was a rumour that an application was going into the Department. Would the Minister entertain it if he received such an application, in view of what happened on the Dublin-Manchester route?More Button

It was written.More Button

Does the Minister realise that in the Dublin-Manchester instance the whole exercise was designed purely to put Ryanair out of business on that route? Does he accept that?More Button

Supplementary Estimates, 1988. - Vote 33: Agriculture and Food (Resumed).

In that space of time I can only welcome the Minister back from Brussels.More Button

I will be brief. A lot of what I have heard so far is historical and does not relate to what is happening. We heard a lot about the abuse of the CAP but the problems within the CAP have, by and larg...More Button

I should like to congratulate the Minister on providing £500,000 for the refurbishment of race courses, in particular Fairyhouse. In my view Fairyhouse is as good a National Hunt course as there is i...More Button

Supplementary Estimates 1988. - Vote 41: International Co-operation.

Has the Minister any plans to set up a committee on Foreign Affairs? It is important that that would be done. Vote put and agreed to.More Button

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