Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)

I will take a step back. What I would like to know is where is the conversation being had about how much of the movement of goods that currently takes place on our roads is appropriate to move into our skies. When I visited the base, Mr. Healy showed me the map of all the journeys his company had done. If Manna had a competitor that wanted to compete with it in this field, for example, if Amazon decided to start doing deliveries with drones here or if An Post decided to provide a drone delivery service, we would suddenly have two, three or four different organisations using our skies. In fairness, it is not Manna's job to answer that question. It is a national question we have to ask.

In all of this, we are tied down in the details - the noise and planning details are important - but there has to be a space to ask the bigger question of how many drones in our skies are too much. I do not have the answer, but that conversation is not taking place anywhere. Does Mr. Healy know if it is? It has not come out of this conversation today. That is a gap that needs to be filled. Primarily, it is our job and the Government's as legislators.