Mr. Donal Moriarty:

We are recruiting across the business constantly, particularly in the area of ground handling and cabin crew. We are commencing training courses in that respect. We also have various apprenticeship programmes under way and are recruiting across our maintenance and engineering, M & E, organisation.

For similar reasons that I gave the Deputy at our previous meeting, the Shannon cabin crew base will not be re-established. I believe I mentioned previously that the decision to close the cabin crew base was primarily taken so that the viability of the resumption of our Shannon operations to New York, Boston and London Heathrow could be ensured. Thankfully, that has been the case since the resumption of transatlantic services in March. Those services have operated strongly and we are pleased with them - the London Heathrow services similarly - but we will not be looking at putting our cabin crew base back in Shannon Airport.