Mr. Ray Gray:

With the greatest respect, I am not trying to create any contradiction here. However there is a difference between, on the one hand, the long-term planning of the airport for five, ten and 15 years out, with a contract that is already capital-committed, and, on the other, dealing with the here-and-now situation that instead of the 33 million passengers there were at Dublin Airport in 2019, there might 20 million or thereabouts next year, and perhaps a small increase on that the year after. It is not our practice to either treat our staff in a disrespectful manner or to push them out of the business. What we are trying to do is change the way we work and to do that to meet our passengers' needs in the interests of both the economy and the airport. For those people who wish - this is absolutely a voluntary choice - to change course or to do things differently, we are engaging with them on a voluntary and, I hope, sympathetic basis to help facilitate that. I think one can say that the airport has been a good employer, by and large. However, that is not to say-----