Mr. Eddie Burke:

The Senator is correct in stating that we are more exposed because of our peripherality in the EU compared with other member states. We have a major reliance on both maritime and aviation to move not only people but goods. We are quite conscious of the overall cumulative impact of these proposals. We are looking to see what their impact on overall competitiveness will be and how they will affect those they feed down to who are - and I think this is the point the Senator made - in some cases the consumer. We are also looking at it from the wider competitor's point of view. That is something we will tease out but, at the moment, until we see how things settle down and the direction in which we are going, we have not got a full answer to that. We have given the estimated costs for pricing of aviation tickets by 2050. I do not have an equivalent for maritime. It will depend on the direction it goes in with the development of fuels and the costs of those fuels compared to what is there at the moment.