Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the national aviation policy, the Department is reviewing how best to move forward. Coming out of Covid, we are in a new landscape in terms of passenger travel and how business people conduct their business. We have a new vista before us. We could not have reviewed the national aviation policy in the middle of a global pandemic, and the review was put on hold because international travel effectively shut down. Obviously, the national aviation policy will cover the whole country, but I want to do the mid-term review of the regional airports programme first because it focuses on the regions and on the importance of having regional balance. From my engagement with the committee,-----