Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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How does IBEC relay that balance to its members in Foynes, Askeaton and Limerick who depend on an early morning flight to Heathrow or an afternoon flight to JFK or Boston, from an airport that is 40 miles up the road or from one that is more than 150 miles away where one cannot park a car practically in the same time zone because it is so big? Shannon has all of the facilities that are available. If one asks any executive of a multinational IDA Ireland company in the mid-west, one element that has been key to bringing such companies into the Limerick and Shannon region is that it has an international airport and the deepest seawater port in the country. I cannot square how IBEC would represent-----