Mr. Michael O'Leary:

There are not two different things. If the Deputy is going to sit there and try to say there is nothing we can do here and the planning process must take its four-year course, that is not what we elect our Governments to do. I would argue this the other way around in favour of this endeavour. There are solutions. Yes, some may be politically inconvenient. Yes, some may run some risk of a court challenge. I would, though, have our Government lift the cap for the next three or four years and take our chances with a court challenge, rather than sit there for four years exporting these routes, jobs and traffic to other European airports that are laughing at us when we are saying there is nothing we can do here because this is the planning process.

Governments have two choices. They can sit there and do nothing or they can act. I believe the Government that acts will be rewarded at the polls. We can lift the cap. Planning permission is not needed for a temporary car park. We only need those additional car park spaces. The DAA has said the car parks are full for weekends in July and August. It owns 300 acres of land there. It is reasonably straightforward-----