Ms Niamh McCarthy:

None of us needs it. We already know that the economic return for the port is minute. That is the same in every port around the world. Instead, this is a question of the greater economy. As Mr. O'Connor stated, the port is a facilitator of bringing tourists to our country. If Dublin Airport decided that it would be cheaper or easier to bring in cargo planes than to look at every passport, would we just accept that? It is the same issue, only on a smaller, but growing, scale. How can one of our largest pieces of infrastructure make this decision, given that doing so will affect so many people country-wide? I do not understand how we can sit back and say that, because the port is a commercial company that makes money, we will let this go and hope that everything will be okay. It is not okay. If it happened at the airport, it would not be okay.