Mr. Tom O'Mahony:

Budgetary decisions remain to be determined. The whole issue of regional airports post-2014 is something to which the Minister is now turning his attention. All Departments have completed their comprehensive review of expenditure, that information has been fed to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and there will now be political discussion about it. One of the issues to be addressed within that discussion is the future of our regional airport programme, whether it is possible to provide any more funding or if it will have to be reduced. Those decisions will be taken in the context of whatever the Government decides it is able to do.