Air travel sector agrees temporary solution with gardaí over staff security checks

Air travel businesses have agreed a temporary solution with gardaí on extra security checks on staff that threatened to slow much-needed recruitment.

Under the compromise, new workers can take up their jobs once they pass the basic background vetting, while Gardaí continue with the extra intelligence checks, which can take longer to complete. These workers receive passes enabling them to work in security zones once the Garda checks clear them. Air travel businesses had complained that this process was taking weeks to complete and hindered efforts to recruit new staff.

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