Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At that meeting, I questioned the CEO of the Shannon Group about it going the independent route rather than staying with Dublin Airport. The chairman of Fáilte Ireland was at the meeting for a different reason, and because of his background with Ryanair, he threw in a few nuggets of information which turned out to be false. He claimed that the worst thing Cork Airport ever did was stay with Dublin Airport, as things have not gone well for it since. That is not the case, as there has been substantial growth there since and things are going very well down there. It is important that we publish those facts and correct the record because an impression was given at that meeting that staying with Dublin Airport Authority was a disaster, that the Shannon Group did the right thing, and that Cork Airport was a basket case. As can be seen from this correspondence, that impression is totally false. Will we be publishing this?