Mr. Ronan Gallagher:

The amount we have advised the committee of is a preliminary assessment by the IAA. The Department did not set any parameters for that costing and therefore it is based on an IAA assessment of what it needs for the moment. In the future, I suppose that will be a matter for review as the demand either from new security threats or from the volume of traffic and passengers expands. I would anticipate that the need for additional funding would increase but not in any material sense.

What is important is that everything that the IAA does in this context is set at EU and international level. There is a kind of drip-down from those regulations. Therefore, as there are changes at that level, the IAA may need to introduce new pieces. As we go through this, as new threats arise, different, new procedures are brought into place and the point about having a separate income stream is to make sure there is a secure, long-term, knowable income stream for the organisation to plan into the future. That is part of the purpose of this legislation.