Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Mr. O'Leary has criticised the management of Dublin Airport. I am just wondering where in Ireland he might say an airport is being well managed. That is my query on that aspect.

Just overall, the Ryanair model is working well. It is going extremely well and the airline is getting a lot of people around. It is not for us to advise Mr. O'Leary on Ryanair's commercial model, but I think the public would love to see the airline move into the trans-Atlantic space. I ask Mr. O'Leary to elaborate on why it is tricky to do this in respect of either side of the Atlantic because if there was even a whisper of this possibility happening, it would be trending and spoken about in every house in Ireland. Irish people have a hankering to get across the Atlantic but it is damn expensive. I am just wondering, therefore, if there is any space in which Ryanair can do this. Is there anything from a regulatory point of view that needs to happen for this development to occur?