Mr. Simon McKeever:

Let us presume we want to build a model whereby we are trying to send many of our companies to other parts of the world. Our main connectivity for non-UK airports is through Heathrow at the moment. If our members need to fly to Shanghai or somewhere else in the world, they need to find alternative routes. It is not as bad out of Dublin as it would be out of Cork, for example. I have not looked at this since the sale of Aer Lingus. There is reasonably good connectivity to other European destinations out of Dublin but it is nothing like what we have through Heathrow. From a services point of view for people who are travelling, it would cause a blockage. On the freight side, a lot of our freight is hubbed through Heathrow at the moment and it would have to hubbed through another airport. The alternative, which we include in our submission, is develop the capacity here in Ireland through greater warehousing. There is a cost implication and a potential delay factor if the cliff is reached. I think we are heading towards a reasonably hard, but not an extremely hard Brexit, given the rate at which the rhetoric is being dialled up at present.