Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

As Mr. Gray has heard, I have five minutes. I will be brief and I request brief answers.

I want to focus on the attempts of the DAA make up to 1,000 workers redundant from a workforce of, I think, 3,500. I could not help but notice the very sharp contradiction between that and what Mr. Gray said in answer to Deputy Hourigan's question on airport expansion. He said that this was a temporary downturn and that the authority had to continue with the expansion. When it comes to workers' jobs, however, Mr. Gray's position is that they have to go. Is it not the case that when the airport is back up to full capacity, or even greater capacity after the expansion, the authority will need all of these staff again within the airports?