Dinny McGinley (Donegal South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 172: To ask the Minister for Transport the basis for his Department including a statement (details supplied) in the third draft of the note for his attention that was included in the report into the reason he was not informed about the Aer Lingus Shannon pull out; the contact his Department made to come to this conclusion; the persons in his Department who were aware of this information at the time of drafting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3486/08]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The circumstances surrounding the Aer Lingus decision to withdraw the Shannon-Heathrow air service, and the circumstances and sequence of events which led to me not being informed before end July 2007 of that possibility, are set out in the Secretary-General's Report on the matter. That report and the inclusion of the material referred to by the Deputy in a draft note prepared in my Department has been examined in detail by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and officials in my Department gave a detailed explanation on this to the Committee at its meeting on 28 November 2007.