Mr. Rory O'Connor:

Yes. The whole aviation industry has accelerated in growth post Covid. A lot of airlines would have used it as a way to retire off some older people, if I can use that phrase. No one was expecting it to grow as quickly as it did. On the pilot training piece, a lot of the airlines found they did not have the pilots and they were bringing back pilots to build up their business in response to that. That affects maintenance and technicians. Air traffic control is affected at the moment. As the Deputy is probably well aware, the aviation industry in Ireland is quite a significant piece of the economy, with over 50 leasing companies in Ireland. Some 10,000 aircraft are owned by those leasing companies. Everywhere that reaches, air travel has been impacted as a result. There is a supply and demand piece, I suppose. I will put it like that.

Training is a significant overhead in terms of time, and because of the way it is monitored as a safety business, we have to be very careful about how we bring people online. You cannot bring people online without due training and qualifications. That impacts technicians and pilots, and it also impacts air traffic control and everything else involved around aviation.