Mr. Gerry Kenny:

To be fair, the Senator probably answered the question herself. There is a growing view that the aviation sector needs to make a greater contribution to this space. We have an expectation that the incoming EU Commission will bring something forward through the energy tax directive, which may address this issue but there are bigger questions involved. It is a wider issue, even outside of the EU, as to the arrangements that are currently in place. It would have probably been a slow train coming regardless. There are other areas in the aviation sector, to take this issue outside of the climate space to an extent, that the EU Commission could also look at, including ticket taxing.

We had our own air travel tax here for a time. These would not be the same constraints around them. It is conceivable that these could be brought forward also in some shape or other but we have to wait to see what the new Commission does.