Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I may interject before my time runs out. I appreciate mothership Europe is always bearing down on the Government with regulation, but we also have our own policies here at home. We have our national aviation policy which we are going to review. We have Project Ireland 2040: National Planning Framework. At the moment, Irish aviation policy is tone deaf to those policies. It does not reflect on it properly. The point is that far too much is going in and out of Dublin without cognisance being given to the other airports. We need to be sweating out these national assets. They are national assets owned by the taxpayer. We need to be sweating those and using them more. When we review our national aviation policy, what policy change will allow us to have criteria that mean when an airline looks for a landing slot, the IAA can weigh it up and respond that the airline already has, say, 13 slots in Dublin, which is enough and they therefore need to move one or two out to the regional airports? What policy change would make that happen?