Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

I had a good relationship with her when I worked in Ryanair and I wish her and the team at Shannon absolutely the best. We operate Dublin and Cork Airports, so that is what we want to talk about and what we have been asked here to talk about today.

I wish to say a few other things. I would absolutely love Cork and Shannon to be competing. Having worked on the airline side, I know that is where the competition exists. Cork, Shannon, Knock and Kerry always compete heavily and airlines view it that way as well. I do not see it as a competition between Shannon and Dublin. Dublin’s competition is airports like Manchester and Edinburgh. Definitely, I will be taking what Senator Dooley pointed out on the aggressive marking and applying that to Manchester and Edinburgh because they have plans of doing transatlantic with US Customs and Border Protection, CBP. We will have that fierce competition with those other airports that we consider a competitor to Dublin that want to take some of our customers. We do not want that. We want people from the north of England and Scotland coming to Dublin and using it to fly transatlantic. That is a great product and that is where we see our competition; we do not see it as with the regional airports. From a Cork perspective, there will be competition between Cork and Shannon, and that should continue.