Mr. Declan Fitzpatrick:

We come back to the ICAO balanced approach to managing noise at airports. This centres on land management and various measures it is possible to take in respect of operations. Much work has been done in aviation at the ICAO level and in Europe on things like continuous descent approaches, continuous climb operations, etc., to try to mitigate noise. Options exist in these respects. Again, though, I think ANCA would be able to educate the committee more on what exactly is involved in the balanced approach.