Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My door is open. I will not make up policy on the hoof here but we do need to make sure there is a rebalancing of air traffic going into the regions. I am open about how that is done. The issues paper will lay out the terms for the public consultation. By feeding into what needs to be asked as part of that public consultation on the regional airports programme, it will give the committee, the people the Deputy engages with and our regional airports the input into issues such as whether we need to increase the threshold to 3 million and then we need to talk to the stakeholders in the region around why that needs to be the case. It is not just the airports and politicians but also the multinationals, the hotel industry and all the other stakeholders in the regions who can make the case. That is exactly why I want to focus on the regional airports programme first.