Pádraig Ó Céidigh (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has answered the questions I asked in a general sense, including my questions on passports and the movement of passengers. He will deal with freight and other areas, here and in the UK. I am obviously very interested in aviation, and I look forward to the Minister's comment on that.

I very much appreciate everything the Minister and his Department, in particular, are doing. It is not easy. It is a tough job and as was clear from the document I read from, which was produced by the British Government, it has been landed in our lap. The Minister said that the meetings he held with his British counterpart and others were neither formal nor informal. They were just meetings. It was never stated that they were formal, informal, on the record or off the record. It is important to state that, because we spent over half an hour using the phrases "formal" and "informal". I counted five occasions on which those phrases were used before I stopped counting. Time is important. I am keen that we have productivity.