Mr. Basil Geoghegan:

On the charge, I did not want to say that it should go from €7.75 to €9.50. That is where it was under the last regulatory period. I absolutely agree that one cannot increase these charges too much. In the context of any of these discussions, it is not the case that a number just appears; there are conversations with customers, with passenger groups and so on. There was a real opportunity at the last determination for the right price to come out but it did not because of the building blocks that the regulator uses, and which the regulator would say it is forced to use. This not a question about the regulators doing the wrong thing, it is about the rules of the game needing to be changed somewhat. Absolutely it must be balanced. It is absolutely right that we at the DAA are told that we need to focus on our costs. We are not looking for blank cheques. We simply want to be able to deliver what passengers, the taxpayers and everybody else would like us to deliver. That is what we want to do and we will do it to the best of our ability. If we are not doing it well enough then the Government is entitled to change us and get others to do it instead.