Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

I do not think we have gone in quickly. If anything, we have gone in late. The demand from airlines and passengers is greater than the cap. If we did not have a cap of 32 million at Dublin Airport today and airlines could come to us looking for a deal on slots, Dublin Airport could already be at 35 million or 36 million. If we were waiting for the national aviation policy, we could have a four-year period where Dublin Airport is turning away connectivity to airports like Manchester, Gatwick and Edinburgh, which are now actively marketing to airlines saying that Dublin is stuck and they should come to them. That would just move jobs to those airports. That would be the worst possible thing for Irish aviation and the worst possible thing for jobs - existing real jobs rather than future jobs to be created. If anything, I wish we had gone with the infrastructure application sooner.