John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Fair enough. My motivation and that of the people who are potentially affected by this issue is to learn what will happen next. There will be a new competition for the contract and people want to know what the Department will do about it. Everything else is in the past. I might agree with what Mr. Watt stated about the checks that he did, although I have a small disagreement with some elements of the process. Some of the bidders certainly do. They did not have a great experience with it. However, we will park that. How will the tender process be constructed in future? Will it be open to other air services or will the officials do the pragmatic thing and narrow it down to a geographical area that is reasonable in terms of air travel to and from the islands? Will they do the same thing all over again? How could they, given the fact that a licence would not be available in the first place?