Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Geoghegan for his assessment. It is a valid point about how people travelled in the past versus the global connectivity we have now through Zoom and Microsoft Teams. I am thinking about my own neck of the woods, where the early-morning flight from Shannon Airport to Heathrow used to be full of business people going to London to do business before returning home in the evening. Many of those people are already telling me their colleagues in Britain and globally are aware that probably 90% of that business can now be done online. That worries me for the long term.

Mr. Geoghegan's opposite numbers in the Shannon Group, Ms Mary Considine and Mr. Ó Pádraig Ó Céidigh, who recently appeared before the committee, are making the argument that for real recovery to happen in aviation, charges should be scrapped entirely and there must be a significant form of subvention. In some ways, that is at odds with how Mr. Geoghegan sees the recovery from the perspective of the DAA in terms of engagement with the regulator and charges at the airport. Will he comment on what I perceive to be an incongruity between the two positions?