Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

That is what I mean by “We need to RESET”. We are taking two cost lines. To just take that one cost line, security staff, the regulator's model is saying that for 2023 to 2026, Dublin Airport should have 750 staff at security. That does not take into account Covid, if anything like that happened again and we did not have staff at security because they got Covid, as we had in every business and organisation in the country. It does not take into account C3 scanners, which are a totally different piece of technology, and it does not take into account resilience.

Forgetting about Covid, it is important to have a buffer for things that happen in big organisations and life and have that resilience built in. Our model says we need 1,000. They say that our model shows a need for 750 and it leaves out many of the things that have happened in the past two years. That is what we mean by the difference in-----