Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail)
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I will make a couple of points. On the fact that 65% of Ryanair traffic is inbound, Mr. O'Leary is talking about increasing Ryanair aircraft at the Dublin base from 33 to 40. Ryanair's projections are showing more growth at the other five airports than in Dublin. It showed the Minister for Transport planned growth of 50%, from 20 million to 30 million passengers. Of these, 4.3 million more passengers will fly out of Dublin Airport and 5.7 million more passengers will fly out of the other airports. As such, Ryanair is doing what many of our non-Dublin members would like in focusing that way. Has anyone done an economic analysis of what Ireland is losing from these seven aircraft, including the staff, the jobs that Ryanair creates directly, the tourism, the flights that we are all missing out on and the tourists who are not coming to Ireland to spend their money in pubs and restaurants or to visit the cliffs of Moher. Has anyone looked at that?