John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will not labour this issue forever. My own opinion is the Government might have got a bit lucky on this one because the licence was not in place at Galway. I have absolutely nothing against the preferred bidder in this case but having a helicopter service based at the location picked by the Office of Government Procurement made absolutely no sense. The office went through its processes and was given a job to do; it made no sense whatsoever. From my perspective, as someone who has used that service and knows the geography and infrastructure in the area, it was crazy to have constructed it the way it was. This is not just my opinion but is that of anybody who has a scintilla of information or knowledge of what I am talking about when it comes to that air service.