Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Those figures are due to the staff and the hard work that is put in, as Mr. Jacobs said. I will add my own words because people have recounted their own personal experiences. My bag was lost in transit, not by DAA but by someone else, and I was in touch with a woman at the airport whose name is Michelle. I sent a message to her boss that she could not have been more efficient and she could not have worked harder. She was not just dealing with me. She was dealing with a rake of people and they were not all as nice I was. She was incredibly professional. The DAA has people working in the airport who are massively great ambassadors for it. They should be given credit for that.

I want to ask about the car parking. It makes me smile when I hear representatives from the Government raising this issue while at the same time representatives in Government are going out and making mad videos while standing around the airport saying there will be no parking and that it is going to be awful. There is parking. I have parked in the airport. We could maybe ask some of them to dial down the rhetoric a little bit and not be making a contribution to the hysteria.

With the parking, however, we are not at the peak of it yet and if one is going to be looking for long-term parking later in the summer it will be a challenge. I am using Mr. Jacob's word for it because there is another word that people may use to describe it if they are the ones looking for the parking. The parking issue must be seen in the context of the absence of any meaningful movement around metro north, as we are not getting it in time for the summer. Also, no additional buses will be laid on. There is sometimes an issue with Dublin Bus not being able to take people's bags and so on. When the sale goes through and there are additional spaces, am I right to say that this just brings the number back up to where it was? Are additional spaces being added or will there be additional public transport? How will that work?