Estimates for Public Services 2020
Dail Éireann — 2020-06-30
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I will be very quick. The €6 million for Shannon Airport was approved by Cabinet last week. It is mainly for infrastructure works. I think the airport will need additional state aid and support in the coming months because of the unprecedented situation we are in. I will study the potential anomalies in the wage subsidy scheme.
I really regret that Shannon Heritage has chosen to close some of those sites. I have been in touch with Deputy Carey about this. What it has said to us is that it is largely dependent on North American tourists to keep those sites viable. In many ways that is the flip side of the staycation. By us staycationing in Ireland, flights are not going to and from western Europe and America. Tourists from Europe, Britain and America are not coming here. That is going to have an impact, unfortunately.

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Sitting date: 2020-06-30