Mr. Martin Nolan:

Once there is a competitive market, whether it be Ryanair, Aer Lingus or someone else, a company cannot share its plans with anybody else. It has to take its own slice of it. It is very different on the PSO side where there is a great deal of consultation. Before we announce changes, we engage with our own staff to tell them what is happening. They all live in the communities they are dealing with and it is in their DNA to serve the community. When we are talking about bypassing locations, it sometimes comes out in the public domain at that stage. When one goes to implement the licence, one looks at the alternatives, together with the NTA, and at that stage there is public consultation. Unfortunately, that is the way a commercial market works.