Mr. Fintan Towey:

Obviously those limits in relation to liquids exist for reasons of aviation security. Those limits stand and there is no proposal to change them for the moment. I am a bit surprised by what the Deputy has said in relation to hand sanitisers because for various other products for which those limits create a problem, the market has responded fairly quickly in terms of finding solutions. I am a little bit surprised that there was no availability of hand sanitiser.

Generally speaking, protocols are applied at airports that have been developed by the European Aviation Safety Agency in consultation with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC. Those protocols provide for sanitisation measures and I would have thought that hand sanitiser would be included there. Obviously, the UK is not part of the EU but I would have expected that it would apply similar protocols, but maybe not.