Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 333: To ask the Minister for Transport the directions he has given to his three directors to the board of Aer Lingus to enhance the connectivity at Dublin, Cork and Shannon Airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31136/10]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The duties of the three Government appointed directors to the board of Aer Lingus derive from the Companies Acts and, as such, the directors are obliged to pursue the best interests of the company. Subject to that duty, the three Government appointed directors have been requested to seek to ensure that all decisions of the company that have significant implications for wider Government, aviation or regional development policies are considered at board level. In any such decisions they are directed to seek to reconcile commercial and public policy objectives.