Mr. Brian Kealy:

At the very least, it gives us an opportunity to speak about it in a public forum. At the time we received good publicity from newspapers, but we never received an "official" hearing. We are appealing to the broad body politic and the Government to see if anything can be done to in some way compensate the people concerned for what we believe we have highlighted as failings in the way certain public bodies carried out their roles, although they did not have specific responsibility for us. Nonetheless, by letting a company continue to operate when, in retrospect, they should not have, it has cost us money and we deserve to get something. Unfortunately, we do not have a legal route and although we have been told that we could try to sue, there is a good chance we would not win. The Irish Aviation Authority has indicated that it has been told by its directors to defend any case. If we wanted to take an action, we would have to put money upfront.