Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

That is a list of efficiencies. The Minister sitting beside the Taoiseach, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, has a very important portfolio. Benchmarking was paid to workers in all Departments. However, at a very senior level in the Department of Transport, Aer Lingus gave notification of its intention to do what it did in respect of Shannon, but the Minister says he was not notified. That is not efficiency. One would expect that, on an issue as significant and as impactful as that, information being sent from a major company to the Minister's office should have been notified to the Minister. Will the Taoiseach comment on that level of efficiency in terms of benchmarking?

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