Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will put it broadly, because I do not have the details in my notes. It is an Estimates rather than a policy briefing I have before me. On a note of caution, I recall that, even in the midst of Covid-19 when it was challenging and the ability to get EU state aid rules adapted to help us through the emergency was strong, we were looking at the options of PSO routes from Shannon to elsewhere and it was proving difficult. When there are neighbouring airports, including Shannon and other operators running services, it is difficult to show there is a complete failure of the market. That is a word of caution, having dealt with European authorities on some of this in recent years. It is not as easy to introduce PSO services as some may think.