Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I only wanted to ask about the impact of the regional airports subsidy, which is down by €1 million. Shannon and Knock airports seem to have increased passenger numbers but, as far as I know, in many of the regional airports the numbers have gone down or are static. Has the Minister some way of gauging that and if there is a problem, can we look again at the subsidy at some stage? This figure is in the Estimates, but surely our priority must be to have connectivity across the country.