Mr. Declan Fitzpatrick:

I do not have specific dates with me but we can supply the Deputy with them. The application would have come to us and we would have reviewed it. I am sure there were two or three iterations before we got to final approval.

Once it is approved by us it then goes into what I referred to earlier as the AIRAC cycle. It gets submitted to the aeronautical information publication. I would need to check the date of when that came in but, typically, it would be at least two months before the runway went into operation.