Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

We shall have to see how that pans out over the year because of the decreasing numbers and the impact on the airport in recent months but it is not possible to do anything about it in the mid-year because it is a budgetary matter. We continue our marketing campaign, targeting and working in a co-operative and new way with the ferries. People who never used ferries in the past have discovered them. We are working with the United Kingdom, in particular, to try to bring up that market because that was one area where figures actually dropped.

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