Noel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael)
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I accept that. Going back to the engines, they would not have suddenly started to corrode. What kind of maintenance programme would they have been on? Normally airplanes would have semi-annual checks, I suppose, for eight or 12 years. This theoretical potential cost would not have come out of the blue. Were measures ever put in place for preventative maintenance? Military aircraft rules may be a little more loose than civil aircraft rules, as I understand it. Generally, there would be compliance with international aviation safety assessment programme standards to preserve value if the plane had to be sold, as it was in this case, for example. What kind of maintenance programme was their to preserve the value?