Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Both documents speak very loudly about balanced regional development and not having everything Dublin-based, yet, as other speakers have said, Dublin has a hugely dominant position in terms of all flights that take off and land in Ireland. I think the figure is around 84% or 85% and it has been higher in the past. That leaves the five airports along the western seaboard vying for that space. Unintentionally, the IAA is complicit in some of that by way of granting landing slots. Could Mr. Fitzpatrick talk us through what gauges the IAA uses when an application is made for a landing slot? I am not looking for all the technical stuff. Does the IAA have any cognisance of regional development when it assesses a landing slot application?