Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Walsh whose opinions are always valued at this committee.

I thank him for his opening statement, which I have read. It is really great to hear that Mr. Walsh is anticipating a 100% recovery in 2023, and that by 2024 this will have gone to 119% on the 2019 flight figures. Mr. Walsh referred to this year, 2022, and if I read the figures correctly, he said that a 76% recovery has stagnated at some point this year. Was some of this down to the baggage handling fiasco around Europe, including our own in Dublin Airport? Was that a factor? Of course there is the war in Ukraine also, but could Mr. Walsh attribute something to that stagnation?