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

Yes.

The Chair dealt with my final point. We often have conversations in this forum on Shannon Airport. People talk about the regional imbalances and all the rest of it. Some of it could be down to where certain of the Deputies come from but occasionally there has been decent enough over-and-back, which IATA has probably added to. People generally say unless aviation policy changes we can talk about new routes but it is never going to happen on any major level. Mr. Walsh, and also the Chair in fairness, dealt with some of this stuff about the sense that this works if Shannon can feed into a hub and piggyback on that. However, becoming Dublin's hub-plus or whatever would take a huge amount of interaction and is probably largely impossible.