Mr. Donal Moriarty:

It will not have an impact if it is the right thing to do. To go back to the earlier question about working collaboratively to identify opportunities for regional development, I welcome the inclusion of Shannon and Cork airports in the State airports programme. To give an example of the opportunity in that regard, in the 2021 budget, €90 million was set aside to support the recovery of aviation and the return of operations and services. That was deployed to very good effect, particularly by Shannon Airport, at that time. The availability of support to airports to enable them to reduce airport charges and provide route incentives as well as to assist airlines in marketing both existing and future routes is critical. From a regional development perspective, we welcome the inclusion of the regional airports in that programme. Ms Embleton spoke earlier about attracting tourists to the mid-west and to Ireland generally and the work done by Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland in that regard is critical. They do a very good job and Aer Lingus, as an airline, co-ordinates and works with them very well. An increase in the funding that is provided to those organisations on an ongoing basis is essential to market Ireland, the Cliffs of Moher, the Wild Atlantic Way and every other magnificent attraction here. That is absolutely-----