Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I reiterate that I welcome going with an emergency process that I discussed with the Minister on Saturday. I also discussed with him the fact other airlines were interested in this lucrative PSO deal.

I am pressing the Government tonight to see if this process can be shortened in any way. The Minister for Transport said that the process would begin next week but the Minister of State has just said that it will begin in the next "number of days". I must emphasise again that every single day counts, with patients being able to travel to Dublin by air for cancer treatment instead of having to make a nine-hour trip by road. Can we shorten this by any amount of days so that we can get it up and running quicker than envisaged in the written response, which refers to early July?

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