Mr. Donal Moriarty:

The slots are not dedicated to specific routes. The commitment Aer Lingus made was that we would replicate the services that were operating in 2015 for a period of seven years . As the Deputy said, that period expires in September. We also committed, as part of the transaction in 2015, that if we are to dispose of or encumber any Heathrow slots, we require the consent of the Government, essentially the Ministers for Transport and Finance. Slots cannot be disposed of without that consent. The commitments in terms of the specific operation of those slots expires, as the Deputy said, in September. Again, we are selling and operating those routes in their current structure, they are viable and we see no reason why that should change.