Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are at the end of October. It would be good for everybody who uses that service if we could get some certainty before Christmas.

On the civil aviation programme, I welcome last week's announcement of the €10 million shared capital investment in Cork and Shannon airports. What is the breakdown of how that will be spent? Is funding planned in the very near future? I know the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, announced on Clare FM that a suite of measures would come before Cabinet this week to support aviation and the airports.

Mary Considine, the chief executive officer of Shannon Group, assured me in a phone conversation last week that she and her colleagues have the capability to roll out rigorous testing. They were waiting on green lighting. How is that progressing in the Department?