Mr. Niall Gibbons:

This needs to be put into perspective. Ferries are a really important source of business. On the three corridors, in a normal year, so to speak, pre Covid, there are nearly 50,000 car spaces every single week. People who travel on ferries tend to stay longer and spend more than people who arrive by air. Ferry travel is a really important source of business for the regions on the northern, centre and southern corridors. We have been talking to DFDS about the new ferry that was announced last week with a view, perhaps, to putting some supports in place for marketing in that regard. I know that the Minister for Foreign Affairs is meeting Brittany Ferries as well to talk about Cork, so we are briefing him on that as well. We do a lot of co-operative work with the existing carriers. Again, I am talking about a pre-Covid environment, but the likes of Irish Ferries, Stena Line and P&O engage in joint marketing campaigns with us, mainly in the British market but also in the French market, to stimulate that car traffic. It is an important source of business, and the Brexit comment is very relevant at the moment too.