Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A significant number of the questions I intended to pose have probably been answered. People are obviously being impacted greatly. Anybody who has been in the airport recently has seen the stacked up baggage. Even when you make a flight, it is generally late. You make the connecting flight on the basis that it is also late. I accept that there is an international dimension to all of this.

If we could deal with Aer Lingus first. The initial problem started before Heathrow had put the cap in place. Could Ms Embleton explain what caused the problem at that stage? Was it largely cases of Covid-19 among the staff of the airline? Ms Embleton stated that there is an impact in the context of Heathrow and Amsterdam. I am assuming that she cannot really tell what the problem is until it occurs. What sort of timeframe does she have in the context of making decisions?