Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses and congratulate them on where they have managed to get their respective airports back to. We met many times as a committee during the abyss of Covid. People were telling us there was a recovery coming in perhaps 2025 or 2026. It was absolutely dismal. Yet, given the seasonality of aviation and that airlines produce their summer and spring schedules the previous winter, many of us were hoping the bounce back could happen a bit better, the seasonality of it lending itself to that. Congratulations to all the witnesses. I know Deputies from Donegal and other counties have lined up here today. I will probably be a bit local with my questioning, so forgive me for that. I know those Deputies will give a positive grilling on Donegal, Knock and everywhere else.