Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To pay tribute again, I happened to be a long way away and spotted The Loop in the southern hemisphere and was slightly proud of the fact it is a DAA facility. The expansion of the number of routes is impressive. The summer brochure came out and I think there are 56 flights a week to Málaga alone, which is a huge number. Some of them are wide-body aircraft with Aer Lingus. People should realise just how big an operation it is and Mr. Jacobs touched on that in his presentation.

The committee flew to Donegal Airport and the bus trip was almost as long as the flight. One goes to the south terminal, gets on a bus and gets brought to the plane. There is an awful lot of that going on, as opposed to with Ryanair, where one can almost walk to the end of the pier and out onto the plane. There seems to be a lot of that. There are the south gates for Aer Lingus. People find it frustrating when they are coming in at night and instead of the plane turning left and heading for the terminal 2 pier it is turning right and going to the south gate, so passengers are getting off a bus. Where are we on having more "gate" gates and less of the bus stuff?