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Gerry Byrne

Gerry Byrne

Minister of Jobs, Immigration and Growth of Newfoundland and Labrador

Jun 10, 2026

11:28
Yeah.
11:28
Full stop.
11:29
They deserve an increase in wages and benefits.
11:33
These are skills.
11:34
These are people in high demand.
11:37
Uh, seafarers are in short supply from a, purely from a labor market situation.
11:44
I do not hesitate for one second to say that our Marine Atlantic employeesDeserve a raise of both wages and of benefits if nothing else purely on a labor market assessment point of view but further because of the quality of the services that they provide.
14:41
Mm-hmm.
Gail Conway
Gail ConwayCORRESPONDENT
0:28
Gerry, what are these carbon costs and how would changing them impact airfares?
0:34
Well, airlines or aircraft are never going to be like cars.
0:38
For example, all of our gas-powered cars or petrol-powered cars are going to be replaced by Teslas or other battery-operated cars.
0:47
That's never going to happen with aircraft.
0:50
So in order to try and compensate the world, the planet, as it were, for the carbon load of airlines.
1:01
The emissions system is already operating in Europe.
1:05
In other words, airlines pay into a fund to compensate for carbon dumping, as it were, into the atmosphere every time a plane flies.
Gail Conway
Gail ConwayCORRESPONDENT
3:31
How likely is this with a judgment on this that could be issued in the coming weeks from the Court of Justice on the European Union?
6:51
Cooke almost always seemed to have a child in his presence.
6:56
Hello.
6:56
My name is Gerry Byrne.
6:57
I operate a radio station in London called, uh, irishradio.org. I've been involved in radio for, uh, in excess at this stage of 40 years.
7:05
As Gerry was only starting out in his radio life, it was about 1981 when he went to see the Radio Dublin studios.
7:14
The first time I met Eamon Cooke, I arrived in, uh, in, af- uh, Radio Dublin.
7:18
He was going someplace, and he had the Jaguar car, which he sort of was well known for driving.
7:23
The one little strange thing I found was he was going somewhere, so I went with him wherever he was going.

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