Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I spoke at a committee in Brussels about the hard to decarbonise aviation and maritime sectors. It was exactly what Mr. O'Leary is saying. We had people from the centre of Europe all saying that we should ban short-haul flights, including people from France, Germany, Belgium and so on, and then all of a sudden we start speaking of Cyprus, Malta, northern Sweden, the Canary Islands and Ireland. There is not a one-size-fits-all approach. If you want to go from Brussels to Amsterdam, why would you fly? That is fine. Ryanair probably does not have and probably would not want that route, but we are an island off an island that does not even want to be part of the EU.