Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When Norwegian Airline was trying to get its transatlantic licence, was Cork used as a carrot given Norwegian was operating on a low-cost initiative? It seemed to be doing tremendous business out of Dublin. Was Cork used as a carrot to lobby the officials in Washington to grant the licence? It dragged out for a while. Any time one reads anything in the press it talks about the necessity for Cork to have a connection to Providence or America. Did Norwegian pull the wool over our eyes in trying to get this transatlantic route up and running? Will Mr. Geoghegan comment on that?