Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

By mid-summer there will be 120 additional staff on the existing booths and five additional booths to deal with the throughput. We need pier D by 2007 and a second terminal by 2009. That is the position as stated by the Dublin Airport Authority and everybody else out there. When the Government has finalised the best and most efficient mechanism for doing this, we will announce all the details and will do so shortly. We are committed to doing that.

Deputy Rabbitte asked about a third terminal. As the Deputy knows all the people at Dublin Airport say that if the growth continues at the current rate, we will ultimately need and should think about possibly extending to cater for up to 60 million passengers in the longer term. That is not what we are thinking about for——

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