Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

It is absolutely wise. We are good at infrastructure and we are good at long-term planning. We would want the functionality and the modularity to say what way we are going to do it. We have a plan and infrastructure application that will go in that will grow Dublin Airport from 32 million to 40 million, and we would look beyond that.

The third terminal is one of those things the media jumped on and said: "We need it, and we need it now and it needs to be far away." I agree with Deputy Kenny in the sense that if we are looking at metro north and it is going to come to where I have described, in my view the best place for a third terminal is to use the existing infrastructure. We will expand, add more gates and terminal capacity in terminals 1 and 2 today, but at some point in time when there is a third terminal I see it being in close proximity to the existing terminals, using metro north and Bus Connects and coming to that same part of the airport - the east side of Dublin airport. It will be the same front door. The terminal capacity will grow for the existing terminals 1 and 2 and at a point in time when a third terminal is something that is required - we are looking long term into the future - I see it more being in that location, beside terminals 1 and 2 rather than on the far side of the airfield. As a nation, we say we would love metro north to exist today but if we are talking about a third terminal at the far side of the airfield, we do not even have a road network connecting us there, so given the surface access never mind the public transportation issues getting there, that feels like a very hypothetical situation. I think we should all be practical and pragmatic when it comes to infrastructural planning, so for me that means when a third terminal is needed, it would be near terminals 1 and 2, using metro north, Bus Connects and the station that we are planning for as part of the infrastructure application in the years ahead.