Ms Mary Rose Burke:

We have engaged with members throughout the country. We are a national organisation and we have to balance the views of members across all sectors, all sizes of business and all geographical locations. Through the transport council, we have contacted our members who have an interest in this area and have looked at those. As I said in my statement, it would be unrealistic to think that we would have complete agreement on the issues because there are quite a diversity of views, but there certainly is consensus on the three distinct areas that I outlined which look at the national interest: the impact on the national economy, particularly business and tourism, the impact on balanced regional development, and the impact on the public finances. Those are the three issues that our members, as a collective, believe the Government needs to take into account. Equally, as we saw, the Government's holding of 25% does not currently give any guarantees around the slots, and what appears to be on offer is some more control than the Government currently has.