The Minister for Transport has announced the composition of the bodies that will implement the restructuring of Shannon airport.
A steering group will oversee the the work of two task forces; an Aviation Business Development Task Force and a Change Management Task Force.
The Government recently announced that it has agreed in principle to separate Shannon Airport from the Dublin Airport Authority.
They have asked the steering group to prepare proposals on the separation, to assess the readiness of the DAA's plan for separation.
The group is also to deal with the transfer of Shannon Development's enterprise functions from Enterprise Ireland and the IDA and tourism functions to Fáilte Ireland.
The steering group is jointly chaired by the Secretary General of the Department of Transport Tom O'Mahony and the Secretary General at the Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovation John Murphy and will include senior officials from those departments as well as Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and Environment.
The Aviation Business Development Task Force will be chaired by Rose Hynes who is a former member of the senior management team of Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) and the boards of Aer Lingus Teo and Shannon Airport Authority, and who is the current chair of Bord Gáis Éireann.
This Task Force will seek out and evaluate aviation-linked business opportunities that could be associated with the new entity and bring forward proposals addressing all relevant issues in this regard.
The Change Management Task Force will be chaired by John Fitzgerald (former Dublin City Manager and current chair of the National Transport Authority, An Post and the Limerick Regeneration Project).
This Task Force will develop proposals for transitional arrangements and for the appropriate corporate, managerial and operational structures of the new entity, including matters related to IT, HR, finance and property.
In addition, it will draw up proposals for the transfer of Shannon Development functions to the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and Fáilte Ireland.
A statement from the Department says that arrangements will be put in place for consultation with other stakeholders, such as IBEC and ICTU with whom preliminary consultations have already taken place.
