Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Okay. That is good.

Aer Lingus Cargo is something we in the mid-west pride ourselves on. During the dark days of Covid when the whole world was flipped on its head, I was particularly alarmed to see large cargo crates from Boston Scientific, each of which was small but with a monetary value of around €1 million, being trucked overnight from the apron of Shannon Airport down the motorway network to Rosslare. They were then brought on a ferry and flown from Heathrow over the skies of Shannon to the United States. That is a very cumbersome way of transporting cargo. How has cargo in Shannon changed? Are there any future plans to improve cargo facilities and use wide bodied jets to get more cargo out of Shannon Airport?