Mr. Conal Henry:

I am not an aviation economist so any answer I give will be my own back-of-the-fag-packet view. The hinterland today is probably Munster and a little bit of the Offaly side of Leinster. It probably starts running out around Charleville to the south. We could be better at attracting people from Galway. I sometimes think Galway is too close to Dublin. It should be anyone outside of the M50 south of the M5. The whole southern half of the State should be using Shannon if we could get the connectivity right. Perhaps that is a pipe dream but we do not seek to achieve it just because it would be great craic to make Shannon a better airport but because it would deliver a better aviation and tourism policy for the State and the 32 counties of Ireland.