Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

The question has been raised more than once as to why the Government, as a shareholder, is not intervening directly in the running of Aer Lingus and either calling for or supporting the call for an EGM. Neither I nor the Government contemplated supporting a call for an EGM from Aer Lingus's main competitor, to have this decision reversed.

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