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

I am not sure either which way.

I want to go back to some of the issues relating to de-icing. In fairness, I do not think I got across earlier what the Aer Lingus representative said. I will throw out what was said rather than what I thought was said, namely:

In other airports however, there is a de-icing area at the airport en route to the taxiway. That leads to a much more efficient de-icing process. That leads to a much more efficient de-icing process. In Dublin Airport, de-icing takes place on each stand. In that scenario you have to move that ground equipment from one aircraft and stand to a different aircraft. That adds more time into the sequence.

The representatives from Aer Lingus spoke about particular issues and said that there was an acceptance by DAA teams on the ground that things could have been done better. Everything seemed to improve from that point of view but it did say there was an infrastructural difficulty and that this is not the same for all airports.