Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We very much support this document. We will write to the Minister for Transport and the Government indicating our full support for it. We will be engaging with the Minister, Deputy Ryan, in the Chamber next week; this is a matter members will be able to raise with him.

I want to touch on two issues. Regarding the scheme the group has put in place, if an airline carries 35% of the passenger numbers it had in a month, say, July, in a previous year, and if its passenger numbers for that month were 100,000, it would have to carry 35,000 passengers in the month of July. If its numbers increase to 50% of the passenger numbers for that relative month, how much funding would the airline get back from the Government? What funds will Shannon Airport get from the State? To drill it down, if the airline carries 50% of the passengers in a respective month relative to that month in a previous year, which is 15% above the 35% figure, how much funding it get from the State?