Mr. Graham Doyle:

There are a number of criteria that allow for the investment in regional airports. It tends to be more favourable regarding safety and security matters, but there are considerations of the size of airport in terms of passenger numbers and the catchment area that it operates in. There were some changes on this recently, allowing for up to 75% of funding for smaller airports, which is consistent with the 75% of funding that the Department got prior approval from the Commission to engage in in terms of its capital programme over the last number of years.