Mr. Conal Henry:

The immediate focus is to try to build traffic back to pre-pandemic levels. We are making good progress in that. We need to reinvigorate the marketing of the airport and work is ongoing on that. We need to look at road and bus connectivity into the airport. Those are some short-term objectives. In the longer term we need to work with all the stakeholders to come up with an aviation policy that makes sense. I hope there will be one at the end of my five years. It is one of those things where people plant trees they will never sit under. The restructuring and this aviation policy will probably be a decade-long process. I would like to think that is something we can start. The Senator and I know each other from the broadband arena where we did it again.

We have not spoken about this. While have spoken about the threat to Shannon, there is a massive opportunity for Shannon in two areas. We have talked about the Shannon Estuary becoming the Aberdeen of offshore wind energy. That will require a co-ordinated approach from all the stakeholders. There is a real opportunity to do something very special there. A number of people are working on it and I can get quite excited about it.

There is also the change in aviation technology and the aviation usage patterns related to decarbonisation. Future Mobility Campus Ireland is located in Shannon. Shannon's heritage of being involved at the cutting edge is almost second to none. It has been at the cutting edge of every major aviation development since the advent of the aviation industry. As we move to non-jet transport, drone-based electricity stuff, hydrogen fuels and all these sorts of things, we need to ensure Shannon is at the centre of all that. It has great relationships with all the airlines, all the aircraft manufacturers and many of the leasing companies and, therefore, there is a way we can position ourselves to do that. I would be really excited and hope that by the end of my term that will be-----