Mr. Basil Geoghegan:

It is interesting that you say that. We welcome the package that has been put forward by the Government and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, which is aid for the airlines to grow that business. There are some other parts to the package too. We already had a system in place at the DAA to incentivise airlines to get their flights and passengers levels back to where they were pre-Covid. We agree that in specific places you will incentivise some to do something by making it more economically effective for them to do it. However, that something which is relatively short term and very targeted is needed more on some routes than on others because some routes naturally have passengers and some airlines are naturally in an almost monopoly position on those routes. That is the way that we would like to go about it. The setting of a charge where the thinking is around building something over the next 25 years has to be at a level which is above cost and allows you to finance it.