Ms Ethna Brogan:

Yes. In the Irish context, we wrote to the National Consumer Agency, the European Consumer Centre and a number of other consumer bodies. We received a couple of responses in which the proposal is generally welcomed. In a general sense, the view of those bodies to which I refer is that the proposal is an improvement on Regulation (EC) 261/2004. The latter contains many ambiguities and has been the subject of a large number of cases before the European courts. In such circumstances, the bodies to which we wrote welcomed the clarifications provided in the new proposal and the new additional rights which will be introduced if it is approved.