Mr. Conal Henry:

I thank the Chairman. No alarms and no surprises is an important requirement between a CEO and management. I do not want to encounter something we did not expect to happen. There will be bad news. Things will start to develop, for better or worse, and we must manage them. I have selected and worked with management teams across a number of industries in the past. I am very impressed with what I see in Shannon and I do not mean that lightly; I really am. It is a very strong team.

The Senator asked about the marketing of the airport. We are conducting a review of our marketing activity and will always review it. I think we can do better but to be honest with him, policy is the issue here. The issue is route density. The airport is not used because there are not enough routes into it because all routes go to Dublin. We put a second runway into Dublin Airport when we should have thought about alternatives. A number of members of the committee will know I am a broadband guy. I said for a very long time that policy can make a difference with regard to broadband. Big policy changes can be delivered in that area, and we can discuss that on a different day. There is a way to do things through policy that can make a big difference. We need to think long about that. National aviation policy should not be rushed out. We should have an honest conversation about how we want our airport infrastructure to look in the long run.