Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

——who believes for one minute that Ryanair decided to reduce the number of flights out of Shannon or out of Dublin because of the €10 departure tax. Ryanair reduced those flights because it estimates the number of passengers flying out of Shannon and Dublin in 2009 will be less than it was in 2008. Ryanair has moved its operations to places where it thinks it will get these passengers.

See this speech in context