Mr. Ronan Gallagher:

There were two different reports and a back history as well. We have the national aviation policy of 2015. There was consultation with that. The national aviation policy is the document that set out how we would do this restructuring. There had been two previous attempts to do this that did not, for various reasons with which I am not familiar, get to the point we are at now. I understand there was some resistance within the organisation, as is natural because change affects people and people are threatened by it and, therefore, there is often kickback. We had extensive consultation in 2015 that resulted in the policy decision.

We had another exercise to do with airport charges. As part of that, we reassessed. I suppose we just looked again, because we had not made any progress, at whether this still made sense. We were strongly of the view that it did and it came into that policy document. After that, we had extensive engagement with the IAA and CAR about how we would go about doing this. Over the past 12 months, before we got to the point we are at today, we had extensive high-level engagement with management, staff and the unions to bottom out the policy ideal to make sure that it was sound before we came to the Oireachtas.