Mr. Pádraig Ó Céidigh:

There is a primary market and a secondary market. In regard to the primary market, when we were in school we had a compass with a pin and a pencil at each end. If we put the pin of the compass on Shannon Airport and drew a circle around it, it would cover Clare, north Cork, a good bit of Kerry, the midlands, as was mentioned earlier, Galway, parts of Roscommon and the western seaboard. There are approximately 1.2 million people living in that broad area. That is the core of the compass.

In regard to the secondary part, it goes back to an important question asked earlier about the relationship between Shannon Airport and the various airports. There are routes that Shannon should be providing that may not be provided out of Dublin Airport or Cork Airport, and vice versa, so we could work together as a team wearing the one green jersey. Therefore, if you want to get secondary markets for people who want to go to those destinations, rather than duplicating things where everyone wants to go here or there, we should work together on the basis that there are some routes which are more suitable to Shannon. If somebody from Dublin wants to go to a particular destination, it should be worth his or her while driving or, preferably, getting a train or a bus and travelling to two hours to Shannon Airport in order to go directly to that destination. That is part of what I would like to explore with Cork and Dublin Airports.