Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will be a bit quicker. On the MATS question, as the Deputy has asked this previously, there has been a decision by the Government that the service will operate with the single aeroplane available to it. It has some range issues and so on but the decision has been that it is what the service will operate with for the foreseeable future. Were a new Government to make a different decision, that would be a political decision rather than an operational one. I think there are other priorities, quite frankly, in terms of defence expenditure at present. However, that would be a decision, as I stated, for any new Government in a few months time.